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decacorn

decacorn noun: a private startup with a valuation of US$10 billion or greater.

Noun

decacorn (plural decacorns)

  1. A private startup with a valuation of US$10 billion or greater.
    • Today, the delinquent decacorn of Silicon Valley announced Uber Freight, a bid to bring the ride hailing model to trucking.2017 May 18, Alex Davies, “With Uber Freight, Travis Takes On Trucking”, in Wired
    • It's not the only domestic decacorn (a unicorn at least ten times over) targeting a 2019 debut.2018 November 26, Alex Wilhelm, Savannah Dowling, “2019 Could Be The Year Of The Decacorn IPO”, in Crunchbase

Examples of decacorn in a sentence

  • Indonesian ride-hailing service Go-Jek's value was estimated at $10 billion by a U.S. market intelligence company, putting it in the ranks of startups called decacorns.2019 April 6, Karlis Salna, “Go-Jek Joins 'Decacorn' Ranks With $10 Billion Valuation”, in Bloomberg:
  • Many of the biggest so-called decacorns, or privately held companies with valuations of at least $10 billion, have filed to go public in the past several months.2019 April 29, Michael J. de la Merced, Andrew Ross Sorkin, “WeWork Files for I.P.O., Joining Wave of Cash-Burning Start-Ups in Going...

Forms of decacorn

pluraldecacorns

Origin of decacorn

From deca- (“ten”) + -corn (“horns”), by analogy with unicorn (literally “one horn”).

Questions about decacorn

What does decacorn mean?
Decacorn means a private startup with a valuation of US$10 billion or greater.
How do you use decacorn in a sentence?
Indonesian ride-hailing service Go-Jek's value was estimated at $10 billion by a U.S. market intelligence company, putting it in the ranks of startups called decacorns.
What part of speech is decacorn?
Decacorn is a noun.
What is the plural of decacorn?
The plural of decacorn is decacorns.

Words near decacorn in the dictionary

  1. decachords
  2. decachotomies
  3. decachotomy
  4. decacopper
  5. decacore
  6. decacorn
  7. decacorns
  8. decacuminate
  9. decacuminated
  10. decacumination
  11. decacyclic

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