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e-business

e-business noun: the practice of servicing businesses or employees over the Internet.

Noun (1)

e-business (countable and uncountable, plural e-businesses)

  1. (uncountable) The practice of servicing businesses or employees over the Internet.
  2. (uncountable) The practice of running a business over the Internet; e-commerce.
  3. (countable) A business that operates partially or primarily over the Internet, usually providing services to other businesses.

Noun (2) capitalized: e-Business

e-Business (countable and uncountable, plural e-Businesses)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of e-business.

Forms of e-business

plurale-businesses
alternative formebusiness
alternative forme-Business
plurale-Businesses

Origin of e-business

From e- + business.

Questions about e-business

What does e-business mean?
E-business means the practice of servicing businesses or employees over the Internet.
What part of speech is e-business?
E-business is a noun.
What is the plural of e-business?
The plural of e-business is e-businesses.

Words near e-business in the dictionary

  1. e-bulletins
  2. e-bullion
  3. e-bullying
  4. e-bus
  5. e-buses
  6. e-business
  7. e-businesses
  8. e-busses
  9. e-campaign
  10. e-campaigning
  11. e-campaigns

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: e-business (page history and authors); e-Business (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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