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dot-commer en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /dɒtˈkɒmə/ (UK)

Etymology

Etymology tree English dot-com Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English dot-commer From dot-com + -er.

Meanings

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 massively multiplayer online games […] 2013, Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge, Vintage, published 2014, page 448:

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