com-

¹ 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. ² American  

abbreviation

1. Commander.

2. Commission.

3. Commissioner.

4. Committee.

5. Commodore.

6. Commonwealth.

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com ³ 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. ⁴ 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 ⁵ American  

[kom] / kɒm /

noun

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

2. computer output on microfilm.

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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. a commercial company

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Com. ⁴ British  

abbreviation

1. Commander

2. committee

3. Commodore

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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

This could breed “risks similar to past periods of exuberance such as 1980’s keiretsu in Japan and Dot.Com’s ‘vendor financing’ schemes,” he says.

From MarketWatch

The message was sent from email address "[email protected]" entitled "The Invisible Man" and forms part of the more than 11,000 files published on Tuesday.

From BBC

The statue is the first to celebrate a rom com on Leicester Square's Scenes in the Square trail.

From BBC

"We currently only have one source in the Large Magellanic Cloud and only four sources with detection of these complex organic molecules in ices in the Milky Way. We need larger samples from both to confirm our initial results that indicate differences in COM abundances between these two galaxies," Sewilo said.

From Science Daily

Kirsty Tullett-Jones, director of marketing and communications for Discover Leicester Square, said it was "about time we added a rom com statue to the line-up".

From BBC