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pureplay en · ADJ

Etymology

From pure + play.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) 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. (not-comparable) Whose sole business activity is over the Internet.