dot-com
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- noun
- /ˈdɑtˌkɑm/
- Texting
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empresa puntocom
- In his time as a DBA and developer, he has worked at three failed dot-coms, a major consulting company, a global bank, and an international insurance and engineering company.
- dot-com companies
- dot-com boom
- dot-com millionaires
Examples
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The new electronic filing provisions may be a boon for commercial lawyers, as well as dot-com entrepreneurs.
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In 1999, it was the height of the new dot-com businesses.
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A lawyer from the West Coast, where legal business was hit hard by the collapse of many dot-com companies, sees a similarly challenging job market.
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After college, I got a few jobs in animation and graphic design at various unstable dot-coms that kept going out of business.
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The dot-com bust of the late '90s.
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"His company helps failing dot-coms by stepping in to deal with creditors and either turning the company around or winding up its operations.
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The controversy surrounding the Toysmart.com bankruptcy case of July 2000 created uncertainty in the dot-com community over what to do with customer lists.
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Gerbsman and others say the first thing they tell their dot-com clients is to ditch the life's-a-party attitude and bring some serious discipline to the management of their companies.
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Analysis: Zazzle's user-generated merchandise e-commerce site has been around since 1999 and has quietly built a solid business while other dot-coms have gone bust.
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Many dot-com companies emerged during the late 1990s, transforming the way we shop online.
Synonyms
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A company that does most of its business on the internet with a website ending in .com
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A business that does most of its work online and uses a website ending in .com
A company that works mainly on the internet
How Online
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Dot-com comes from the website ending .com, short for 'commercial', with the 'dot' meaning the '.' before the name; a dot-com is therefore a company whose main business is online, like a shop with a name that ends in .com.