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.

Origin of eBay

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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

Words Nearby eBay

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How to use eBay in a sentence

  • As it is, take something home from the architectural salvage lot and sell it on eBay.

    Makers | Cory Doctorow