Fledgling
fledgling (noun) - new and without experience (like a baby bird learning to fly)
a fledgling company - a new company without much experience yet
Example sentences:
* Many fledgling political parties will be trying out their wings in the upcoming elections.
* Many were philosophically opposed to the government becoming a venture capitalist for fledgling companies.
* The mother bird would not allow her little fledgling to fly away from the nest on its own.
* His fledgling company was started in 1953 and quickly achieved success after it bought a licence from Western Electric to develop transistor technology.
* The TV station and and Britain's fledgling satellite companies are the best of friends.
* Once a fledgling PC maker, the firm is now one of the largest multinational corporation.
* He was able to guess, I think, this hunger of mine, but would only tantalise me, dropping knowledge one small fragment at a time, like a mother bird stuffing food down the throat of its fledgling.
* Fledgling opposition parties were quickly and silently suppressed by the government.
* "The terrorist violence our fledgling democracy currently faces cannot justify the occasional or systematic violation of human rights."
* The hitech startup failed because it only had a handful of fledgling new technologies to offer and few software packages.
* The push to complete the first full length feature film proved very tough indeed, especially for a fledgling director used to the more simpler ways of commercial Television.
* "In the 1920s, working closely with the Bank of England, he introduced bonds of fledgling central European republics to the international capital markets."
* "All the while, of course, European single market law hovers over this little fledgling company like a bird of prey."
* "Then he turned back and stared intently at Harry, his eyes gleaming like those of an aged eagle in his bizarrely fledgling face."
* As a fledgling journalist I spent a whole year knee deep in mud walking around the Vietnamese jungle.
* "The bitter attacks on Germany by the fledgling but rapidly developing Russian press, after the Berlin settlement of 1878 had so disappointed Russian hopes in the Balkans, helped to push Bismarck towards the alliance with the Habsburg empire which took shape in 1879."
* "There should have been a second woman here to receive her honourary degree; Aung San Suu Kyi; founder of the fledgling Burmese democracy movement."
* "The museum is an art museum not a theme park, exercising children's eyes and minds; their curiosity, powers of observation and fledgling intelligence; rather than taking them on a rollercoaster ride."
