COM

¹ American  

[kom] / kɒm /

noun

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

2. computer output on microfilm.

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com ² 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. ³ American  

abbreviation

1. Commander.

2. Commission.

3. Commissioner.

4. Committee.

5. Commodore.

6. Commonwealth.

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com- ⁴ 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. ⁵ 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 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  

abbreviation

1. a commercial company

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com- ³ British  

prefix

1. together; with; jointly

   commingle

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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 com¹

First recorded in 1980–85; shortening of commercial ( def. ) or company ( def. )

Origin of com-¹

< Latin, variant of preposition cum with

Example Sentences

In early 2000, having “.com” in a company’s name was a ticket to success, and several early-stage companies decided to use over $2 million of their limited cash on a 30-second Super Bowl spot.

From Barron's

Stafford is scheduled to carry a $48.3 salary-cap number in the final year of the extension he signed in 2022 after leading the Rams to a Super Bowl title, according to Overthecap,com.

From Los Angeles Times

Its expansion into the residential real estate realm ramped up in 2024 with its investment in real estate portal Homes.com—which came at a cost, Barron’s reported recently.

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CoStar earlier this month outlined its path to profitability for Homes.com, which called for “lowering the capital intensity of Homes.com” and reaching positive earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization, or Ebitda, for Homes.com by 2030.

From Barron's

A reconstituted board also “should immediately consider strategic alternatives for Homes.com and related RRE businesses,” the letter says.

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