COM

¹ American  

[kom] / kɒm /

noun

1. Trademark. Comedy Central: a cable television channel.

2. computer output on microfilm.

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com- ² American  

1. a prefix meaning “with,” “together,” “in association,” and (with intensive force) “completely,” occurring in loanwords from Latin (commit ): used in the formation of compound words before b, p, m: combine; compare; commingle.

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com. ³ American  

abbreviation

1. comedy.

2. comma.

3. command.

4. commander.

5. commerce.

6. commercial.

7. commission.

8. commissioner.

9. committee.

10. common.

11. commonly.

12. communications.

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Com. ⁴ American  

abbreviation

1. Commander.

2. Commission.

3. Commissioner.

4. Committee.

5. Commodore.

6. Commonwealth.

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com ⁵ American  

[kom, see-oh-em] / kɒm, ˈsiˈoʊˈɛm /

1. (on the internet) a top-level domain appearing as a suffix on domain names used for commercial establishments.

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COM ¹ British  

/ kɒm /

noun

1. 1. a process in which a computer output is converted direct to microfiche or film, esp 35 or 16 millimetre film

   2. ( as modifier )

      a COM machine

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com- ² British  

prefix

1. together; with; jointly

   commingle

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Com. ³ British  

abbreviation

1. Commander

2. committee

3. Commodore

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com ⁴ British  

abbreviation

1. a commercial company

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.com Cultural  

1. Part of the Internet address of many companies and organizations. It indicates that the site is commercial, as opposed to educational or governmental.

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The phrase dot-com is used to refer generically to almost anything connected to business on the Internet.

The explosive growth of wealth connected to the Internet in the 1990s is often said to have created many “dot-com millionaires.”

Etymology

Origin of com-¹

< Latin, variant of preposition cum with

Origin of com¹

First recorded in 1980–85; shortening of commercial ( def. ) or company ( def. )

Example Sentences

Its expansion into the residential real estate realm ramped up in 2024 with its investment in real estate portal Homes.com—which came at a cost, Barron’s reported recently.

From Barron's

CoStar earlier this month outlined its path to profitability for Homes.com, which called for “lowering the capital intensity of Homes.com” and reaching positive earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization, or Ebitda, for Homes.com by 2030.

From Barron's

A reconstituted board also “should immediately consider strategic alternatives for Homes.com and related RRE businesses,” the letter says.

From Barron's

CoStar Group, the commercial real-estate giant that has been building its residential real estate portal, should reconstruct its board and “immediately consider strategic alternatives for Homes.com,” Third Point CEO Daniel Loeb wrote in a letter published Tuesday.

From Barron's

Amazon.com on Tuesday said it would close its Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh physical grocery stores while leaning into its Whole Foods chain — and also floating a bigger push into physical mass-retail locations and supercenters.

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