eBay

[ee-bey]

Digital Technology, Trademark.

1. the brand name for an internet retail website, launched in 1995, that specializes in consumer-to-consumer sales.

Word History and Origins

Origin of eBay¹

First recorded in 1990–95; short for Echo Bay Technology Group, a company founded by the founder of eBay, Pierre Omidyar (born 1967), French-born American entrepreneur of Iranian ancestry

Example Sentences

Carved into their uniforms and the store’s façade is “eBay” — the secondhand e-commerce company collaborated with Roan to curate an array of trinkets and garments suited for the show.

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Others know exactly which one they want, and are willing to pay markups of up to three times retail on eBay or other resale sites.

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Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com in 1994 as an online bookstore, while Pierre Omidyar launched eBay in 1995 as an auction site.

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At the end of 1999, Cisco Systems was trading at 96.7 times forward earnings, while Oracle was at 92.1 times, and eBay was at 351.7 times, according to Dow Jones Market Data, to name a few of the survivors of the bubble.

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They can be had on EBay for $20 or even less.

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