dot-com

noun

ˈdät-ˌkäm

often attributive

: a company that markets its products or services usually exclusively online via a website

Examples of dot-com in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web During the dot-com boom, over-exuberance and a lack of strategic foresight led to a catastrophic overbuild that took years to correct. —

Emil Sayegh, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2024 The central bank only cuts by half-points when there’s something dire happening in the economy, such as the bursting of the dot-com bubble in 2001. —

Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 18 Sep. 2024 The current generative AI frenzy is very similar to the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s, where companies rushed to adopt the new technology without fully understanding its use cases. —

Tony Bradley, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2024 The decade was marked by the rise of hip hop, the dot-com era, and grunge culture. —

Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 13 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for dot-com

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