Word.ws English Dictionary

dot-commer

UK/dɒtˈkɒmə/

dot-commer noun: someone who works (or worked) for a dotcom company.

Noun

dot-commer (plural dot-commers)

  1. Someone who works (or worked) for a dotcom company.
    • Maxine has joined her sister Brooke's state-of-the-art health club Megareps around the corner but isn't quite used yet to this nightly spectacle of yups on treadmills, plodding to nowhere while watching CNN or the sports channels, laid-off dotcommers who aren't at strip clubs or absorbed into...2013, Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge, Vintage, published 2014, page 448

Forms of dot-commer

pluraldot-commers
alternative formdotcomer
alternative formdotcommer

Origin of dot-commer

From dot-com + -er.

Questions about dot-commer

What does dot-commer mean?
Dot-commer means someone who works (or worked) for a dotcom company.
What part of speech is dot-commer?
Dot-commer is a noun.
How do you pronounce dot-commer?
Dot-commer is pronounced /dɒtˈkɒmə/ (UK).
What is the plural of dot-commer?
The plural of dot-commer is dot-commers.

Words near dot-commer in the dictionary

  1. dot-coma
  2. dot-comas
  3. dot-comer
  4. dot-comers
  5. dot-commed
  6. dot-commer
  7. dot-commers
  8. dot-comming
  9. dot-commiserate
  10. dot-commiserated
  11. dot-commiserates

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: dot-commer (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “dot-commer.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/dot-commer. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.