clicks-and-mortar

[ kliks-uhn-mawr-ter ]

/ ˈklɪks ənˈmɔr tər /

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adjective

pertaining to or denoting a company that does business on the internet and in traditional stores or offices.

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Also click-and-mor·tar

[klik-uhn-mawr-ter] /ˈklɪk ənˈmɔr tər/ .

Origin of clicks-and-mortar

First recorded in 1995–2000; on the model of earlier brick(s)‐and‐mortar, referring to physical buildings or sites

Words nearby clicks-and-mortar

click beetle, clicker, clickety-clack, click fraud, clickjacking, clicks-and-mortar, click stop, clickstream, clickthrough, clicktivism, clickwrap

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How to use clicks-and-mortar in a sentence

As an example of good science-and-society policymaking, the history of fluoride may be more of a cautionary tale.
Anti-Fluoriders Are The OG Anti-Vaxxers|Michael Schulson|July 27, 2016|DAILY BEAST
As this list shows, punishments typically run to a short-ish jail sentence and/or a moderately hefty fine.
In Defense of Blasphemy|Michael Tomasky|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Yes, publicizing tragedy gets clicks, gets ad revenue, gets notoriety, and can be done for all the wrong reasons.
Cover-Ups and Concern Trolls: Actually, It's About Ethics in Suicide Journalism|Arthur Chu|January 3, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Yes, Byrd—dead four-and-a-half years now—was a Kleagle in the Ku Klux Klan.
Steve Scalise and the Right’s Ridiculous Racial Blame Game|Michael Tomasky|January 2, 2015|DAILY BEAST

Later that night, that same black-and-red banner would be seen again—in the column of marchers chanting for dead cops.
The Monsters Who Screamed for Dead Cops|Jacob Siegel|December 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
She also practises etching, pen-and-ink drawing, as well as crayon and water-color sketching.
Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D.|Clara Erskine Clement
No law of that country must exceed in words the number of letters in their alphabet, which consists only in two-and-twenty.
Gulliver's Travels|Jonathan Swift
Mr. Spurrell came down to see a horse, and we shall be very glad to have the benefit of his opinion by-and-by.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 107, November 3, 1894|Various
They were eaten too quickly, in long gulps of four-and-twenty hours at a time.
Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II|Rudyard Kipling
There, if his eyes did not deceive him, were evidences of mortar dislodged by nefarious toes.
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol|William J. Locke

British Dictionary definitions for clicks-and-mortar

clicks and mortar

adjective

making use of traditional trading methods in conjunction with internet tradingAbbreviation: C & M

Word Origin for clicks and mortar

C20: pun on bricks and mortar, with click referring to the computing sense

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