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pure-play

pure-play is the alternative spelling of pureplay.

Meaning of pureplay

Adjective

pureplay (not comparable)

  1. Involved with a single product.
    • Chang gained trust by allaying fears that TSMC would steal designs, as pure-play foundries have no use of them; TSMC stealing from chip designers would be like a printing press stealing plots from novelists.2023 March 21, Virginia Heffernan, “I Saw the Face of God in a Semiconductor Factory”, in WIRED
  2. Whose sole business activity is over the Internet.

Questions about pure-play

What is pure-play the alternative spelling of?
Pure-play is the alternative spelling of pureplay.

Words near pure-play in the dictionary

  1. pure-bred
  2. pure-breds
  3. pure-hearted
  4. pure-impure
  5. pure-out
  6. pure-play
  7. pureblood
  8. pureblooded
  9. purebloods
  10. purebred
  11. purebreds

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