bootstrap

CEFRC2

/ˈbuːtˌstɹæp/

noun

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In plain English

01
noun
To start or develop something using limited resources.
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noun
Extra detail
A means of advancing oneself or accomplishing something without aid.

Examples

At a glance

Sits at C2 on the CEFR scale

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Extra meanings

The process by which the operating system of a computer is loaded into its memory.
A loop (leather or other material) sewn at the side or top rear of a boot to help in pulling the boot on.
The process necessary to compile the tools that will be used to compile the rest of the system or program.

In context

The startup decided to bootstrap its operations rather than seek funding.
Bootstrapping means building the GNU C Library, GNU Compiler Collection and several other key system programs.
He used his business experience as a bootstrap to win voters.

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And she finds the plan. She doesn't remember it; she bootstraps it from first principles, in a handful of minutes, just like she's done a hundred times before.
2016 January 1, qntm, “Your Last First Day”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 04 Sep 2024
I was born into that shitty town, maleness, in the remains of outdated ideals and misplaced machismo and repression and there are some good people stuck living there. They are not in charge. They did not build it. And I don’t feel okay just moving out and saying “fuck y’all — bootstrap your way out or die out, I was never one of you.” I want to make it a better, healthier place—not spend all my time talking about how shitty it is and how anyone who would choose to live there deserves it.
2016 March 11, Jennifer Coates, “I Am A Transwoman. I Am In The Closet. I Am Not Coming Out.”, in Medium
Gradually, more and more terms were discovered, especially as there was a tendency in the literature to list a number of related terms together, thus allowing me to bootstrap new terms found accompanying those originally searched for.
2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 5

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From boot + strap. The sense "pull up (without aid)" comes from the phrase pull oneself up by one's bootstraps.