dot com
/dɑt kɑm/
noun
- A company that does business primarily on the internet.
- The young entrepreneur dreamed of building the next big dot-com.
- Many dot-coms went bankrupt during the early 2000s.
- She started a successful dot-com that sells handmade crafts online.
- The internet business sector or industry as a whole.
- He wrote a book about the rise and fall of the dot-com era.
- The dot-com crash taught many people about the risks of tech stocks.
- Investors were excited about the dot-com boom in the late 1990s.
Synonyms
adjective
- Relating to internet-based businesses or the internet industry.
- She worked for a dot-com startup that sold pet supplies online.
- Dot-com companies often have flexible work-from-home policies.
- The dot-com bubble burst when many online companies failed.