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web-based

British  

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or using the World Wide Web

    web-based applications

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Web-based academic courses and music lessons have boomed in the past few years, especially as remote learning became a part of pandemic life.

From New York Times • Aug. 30, 2023

Q: For the past seven years, I have worked as an independent contractor for a small Web-based business.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 7, 2021

So, our department has recruited research assistants, whose usual activities have been grounded by the coronavirus lockdown, to populate Web-based data forms that track people admitted with severe COVID-19 illness through their hospital stay.

From Scientific American • Apr. 3, 2020

Web-based trading services often have issues with atypical spikes in traffic because they don’t often use outside cloud providers due to the financially sensitive nature of stock transactions.

From Slate • Mar. 12, 2020

For a fee, these companies-Salesforce.com, for example—give you access to a library of Web-based business applications, which you can just tap into online to run your business.

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman

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