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dot-com

dot-com is the alternative form of dotcom.

Meaning of dotcom

Noun

dotcom (plural dotcoms)

  1. (dated) A company whose business is based around a website or primarily via the Internet.
    • Even mainstream, primetime narratives in the domestic sphere, for instance, now provide unremarkable reflections on the now naive and overly optimistic promises of cybertech, the high-techs, and dotcoms.2003, Anna Everett, John T. Caldwell, New Media: Theories and Practices of Digitextuality

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Forms of dot-com

Noun
pluraldot-coms
Verb
third-person singular presentdot-coms
present participledot-comming
past participledot-commed
pastdot-commed

Words formed from dot-com

Phrases with dot-com

Questions about dot-com

What is dot-com the alternative form of?
Dot-com is the alternative form of dotcom.

Words near dot-com in the dictionary

  1. dot-and-go-one
  2. dot-and-go-ones
  3. dot-bomb
  4. dot-bombs
  5. dot-carnage
  6. dot-com
  7. dot-com boom
  8. dot-com booms
  9. dot-com bubble
  10. dot-com bubbles
  11. dot-coma

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dot-com (page history and authors); dotcom (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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