Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to business conducted on the Internet.
- adjective Of or relating to a company whose products or services deal with or are sold on the Internet.
- noun A dot-com company.
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- noun A business that carries out its functions primarily via the
internet .
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- adjective of or relating to an internet company
- noun a company that operates its business primarily on the internet using a URL that ends in `.com'
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Six months after Netscape went public, the phrase "dot-com" started showing up in TV commercials, and dozens of eventual Internet giants -- from Amazon -- followed.
unknown title 2012
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The hottest deals for the new Internet company collectively became known as the dot-com boom, and you could hear taxi drivers, bus drivers, waitresses, secretaries, and schoolteachers debate the virtues of the latest golly-gee-willickers company with as much passion and sophistication as an investment banker.
Superfusion Zachary Karabell 2009
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The hottest deals for the new Internet company collectively became known as the dot-com boom, and you could hear taxi drivers, bus drivers, waitresses, secretaries, and schoolteachers debate the virtues of the latest golly-gee-willickers company with as much passion and sophistication as an investment banker.
Superfusion Zachary Karabell 2009
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She had a job at a company called a dot-com, which got paid $100,000 to make, like, a single Web site.
I'm Perfect, You're Doomed Kyria Abrahams 2009
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The hottest deals for the new Internet company collectively became known as the dot-com boom, and you could hear taxi drivers, bus drivers, waitresses, secretaries, and schoolteachers debate the virtues of the latest golly-gee-willickers company with as much passion and sophistication as an investment banker.
Superfusion Zachary Karabell 2009
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But after congratulating itself on calling the dot-com and mortgage bubbles, it fails to answer it.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Robert Teitelman 2011
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Our country has experienced larger bubbles — the dot-com bubble of the 1990s, for example — that were not nearly as devastating as the housing bubble.
What Caused the Financial Crisis? Bill Thomas 2011
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In an economy shy of a serious engine for growth to replace the fantasies that came before --the real estate fairy tale, the dot-com bubble -- significant job creation is dependent upon an aggressive government role in the short term, one that can catalyze the private sector investment needed to get commerce humming.
Obama's Pivot: Pandering to Business Peter S. Goodman 2011
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The region's economy grew rapidly from 2002 to 2007 as Boeing rebounded from the post-9/11 drop in aircraft production and tech companies recovered from the dot-com bust.
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When I was 25 and chosen to head an all-male team at a successful dot-com company, I could not accept my power.
Morra Aarons-Mele: The Shifting Roles And Expectations For Men And Women Morra Aarons-Mele 2011
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