fledging, nascent, flourishing, beleaguered, thriving, foundering, moribund, faltering, defunct, homegrown, ragtag, fully fledged, aspiring, fragile, embattled, moneymaking, embryonic, lucrative, tiny, shaky, grass roots, resurgent, nurtured, small, nonprofit, new, meteoric, own, founding, eponymous, local, onetime, troubled, ambitious, fractious, pioneering, incipient, promising, semiprofessional, formidable, booming, smallscale, tenuous, forming, entrepreneurial, launching pad, untried, loosely knit, itself, premier, storied, venerable, mighty, vaunted, grassroots, svengali, viable, ballyhooed, plucky, fitful, famed, freelance, crown jewel, resurging, ailing, rocky, freewheeling, preeminent, renascent, national, whiz kid, topflight, major, rejuvenated, tumultuous, stodgiest, future, cumbrian, postwar, transitional, formative, independent, enterprising, horse wrangler, mentoring, its, biggest, monthlong, eager, ascendant, fabled, mushrooming, multiethnic, turbulent, growing pains, largest, videodisc, cutthroat, tightly knit, vast, successful, unheralded, fledglings, cub, pup, baby, cubs, hostage, nestlings, babe, destitute, donkey, flock, foal, hare, kitten, puppies, pups, waif, babes, babies, crow, organized, fledged, wellorganized, dominated, fullfledged, organised, bureaucratized, innovating, established, trading, federated, interdenominational, multinational, underfunded, capitalistic

enlistee, recruit

squashed

beginner, initiate, novice, tiro, tyro, young bird

entrant, fledged, fledgeling, freshman, inexperienced, mature, neophyte, newcomer, starter, unfledged