dot-com
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- adjective
- /ˈdɑtˌkɑm/
- Texting
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puntocom
- Nor, of course, could they have considered the dot-com boom and bust in the early 2000s or the Great Recession of 2008 to 2009.
- dot-com bust
- dot-com boom
Examples
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It's not going to be the dot-com boom all over again.
Blog text (6) -
A year after starting a dot-com business out of his dorm room, he landed in bankruptcy court.
Academic text (2001) -
We're applying the dot com model to a different product.
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With the recent dot-com bust, the number was now half that, and it was driving him nuts.
Fiction book (2002) -
The answers lie in what lawyers and dot-com clients have learned during the past year's big collapse.
Academic text (2001) -
By 2004, many of us still were suffering from the dot-com bust, and the bravado and energy had changed.
Blog text (6) -
Was our experience with the dot-com bubble an anomaly or something we can/should learn from?
Blog text (11) -
When the exciting opportunity to work in a post-bubble dot-com startup arose, I jumped to take it.
Blog text (17) -
At the height of the dot-com craze, Fortune magazine had put Ellis's net worth at twenty-one billion dollars.
Fiction book (2002) -
Many successful dot-com companies emerged during the late 1990s, revolutionizing online shopping.
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Dot-com comes from the web address part .com, where com stands for 'commercial', and the 'dot' is the little '.' you type before it. So dot-com describes things or businesses that live mainly on the internet.