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e-commerce

/iˈkɑmɚs/

e-commerce noun: commercial activity conducted via the Internet.

Noun (1)

e-commerce (uncountable)

  1. (Internet) Commercial activity conducted via the Internet.
    • The last thing you need to do before launching the e-commerce site is enable credit card processing.2006, Cristian Darie, Karli Watson, Beginning ASP.NET 2.0 E-Commerce in C# 2005, Apress, →ISBN, page xxi
    • One of China’s most prominent e-commerce companies is facing intense public backlash over allegations that it overworks its employees.2021 January 13, Laura He and Nectar Gan, “Pinduoduo under fire as China turns on its tech titans”, in CNN
    Synonyms:
    e-comms

Noun (2) capitalized: E-commerce

E-commerce (uncountable)

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

Noun (3) capitalized: e-Commerce

e-Commerce (uncountable)

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

e-commerce meaning in Punjabi, Arabic, Indonesian and Vietnamese

e-commerce in Punjabi

commercial activity conducted via the Internet
ਈ-ਕਾਮਰਸ ī-kāmras

e-commerce in Arabic

commercial activity conducted via the Internet
تِجَارَة إِلِكْتْرُونِيَّة tijāra ʔiliktrōniyya

e-commerce in Indonesian

commercial activity conducted via the Internet
perdagangan elektronik

e-commerce in Vietnamese

commercial activity conducted via the Internet
thương mại điện tử

Synonyms of e-commerce

Forms of e-commerce

alternative formE-commerce
alternative forme-Commerce
alternative formeCommerce
alternative formelectronic commerce

Origin of e-commerce

From e- + commerce.

Words formed from e-commerce

Questions about e-commerce

What does e-commerce mean?
E-commerce means commercial activity conducted via the Internet.
What is e-commerce in Punjabi?
E-commerce in Punjabi is ਈ-ਕਾਮਰਸ (ī-kāmras). See E-commerce meaning in Punjabi.
What part of speech is e-commerce?
E-commerce is a noun.
How do you pronounce e-commerce?
E-commerce is pronounced /iˈkɑmɚs/ (US).

Words near e-commerce in the dictionary

  1. e-clutter
  2. e-collar
  3. e-collars
  4. e-collection
  5. e-collections
  6. e-commerce
  7. e-commercial
  8. e-comms
  9. e-communication
  10. e-communications
  11. e-communicator

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: e-commerce (page history and authors); E-commerce (page history and authors); e-Commerce (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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