Dot-com Definition

dŏtkŏm
dotcom, dot-coms
adjective
Designating or of a company doing business primarily on the World Wide Web.
Webster's New World
Of or relating to a company whose products or services deal with or are sold on the Internet.
A dot-com brokerage firm.
American Heritage
noun
Such a company.
Webster's New World

A company whose business is based around a website.

Wiktionary

A business that carries out its functions primarily via the internet.

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Other Word Forms of Dot-com

Noun

Singular:
dot-com
Plural:
dot-coms

Origin of Dot-com

  • From the DNS suffix .com

    From Wiktionary

  • Pronunciation of .com

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Dot-com Sentence Examples

  • During the dot com boom I made a good wage, which allowed me to attend two or three a year.

  • A year ago money was pouring into almost any dot com you could create.

  • Venture capital investments are seen as the primary precursor to economic growth, they have fueled the dot-com boom in the 1990s.

  • We saw the same thing when the dot-com bubble burst.

  • Second, the dot com bust took some of the wind out of inflated domain name prices.

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Words Starting With

DDODOT

Words Ending With

MOMCOM

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Words Starting With D and Ending With M

Starts With D & Ends With MStarts With DO & Ends With MStarts With D & Ends With OM

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7 Letter Words7 Letter Words Starting With D7 Letter Words Ending With M