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Phrase(s): start up with someone or something
to begin by using someone or something. • We will start up with two clerks and add more as we grow. • We started up with one old cash register, and now we have six., Phrase(s): start something up with something
to use something in the process of starting something else. • Do you have to start this old car up with a crank? • Do you start up this car with a crank?
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs