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What does up-and-coming mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word up-and-coming? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. (idiomatic) emerging; aspiring; beginning to attract attention or critical acclaim
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This new competition focuses on up-and-coming talented young players in the brass band world.
Over two hundred people attended including many up-and-coming young handballers.
The North-west playwrights showcase will then feature two plays by up-and-coming North-West writers.
He continues to bang the drum loudly for both established and up-and-coming Canadian roots musicians.
He is another of the young, gifted and up-and-coming breed of goalkeepers who has been tipped for international honours.
This series follows the hungry, up-and-coming estate agents at one of Britain's most successful companies.

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