dot com company
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- noun
- /dɑt kɑm ˈkʌmpəni/
- Texting
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empresa dot com
Examples
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The funny thing is, we only gave those dot com companies.
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I run my own dot-com company that sells products exclusively online.
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Many dot-com companies emerged during the internet boom of the late 1990s.
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She invested in a dot-com company because she believed in the future of online shopping.
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 company that does most of its business online, often with a website ending in .com
A company that works mainly on the internet
How Online
- Texting
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- Texting
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- Specialized
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'dot' + 'com' signals the .com internet domain and 'company' names the organization, so a learner who knows the constituent words can infer a firm operating via a .com presence. This is a widely used, cross-linguistically transparent calque (often heard as 'dot-com company'), so the sense is immediately recognizable rather than idiomatic.
Etymology
The noun dot com company comes from website names that end in dot com, where 'com' stood for 'commercial'. That's why the phrase now refers to a company that does most of its business on the 'web'.