1.
If you describe someone as, for example, a ~ businessman or a ~ artist, you mean that they are starting to succeed or become interested in business or art.
The forum is now open to all ~ entrepreneurs...
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2.
You use ~ to describe a situation that is just beginning.
Our ~ romance was over.
...Russia’s ~ democracy.
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