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pureplay

pureplay adjective: involved with a single product.

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.

Origin of pureplay

From pure + play.

Questions about pureplay

What does pureplay mean?
Pureplay means involved with a single product.
What part of speech is pureplay?
Pureplay is an adjective.

Words near pureplay in the dictionary

  1. purely imaginary number
  2. purely imaginary numbers
  3. pureness
  4. purenesses
  5. Purepecha
  6. pureplay
  7. purer
  8. purer and simpler
  9. pures
  10. purest
  11. purest and simplest

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