e-commerce

noun

e-com·​merce ˈē-ˌkä-(ˌ)mərs How to pronounce e-commerce (audio)
often attributive
: commerce conducted via the Internet

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An introduction to the press in November 2019 netted immediate e-commerce sales but Nomasei was waylaid by the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, four months in. Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 14 Oct. 2025 But e-commerce expert Juozas Kaziukenas noted in a LinkedIn post earlier this year that Amazon has actively worked to block Big Tech players’ LLMs from crawling its product data to show consumers. Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 14 Oct. 2025 Pattern, self-described as an e-commerce accelerator, is one of the leading resellers on Amazon. Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2025 Examples of creative destruction include e-commerce disrupting retail, streaming services replacing videocassette and DVD rentals and internet advertising undermining newspaper advertising. Jason Ma, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for e-commerce

Word History

First Known Use

1993, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of e-commerce was in 1993

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“E-commerce.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/e-commerce. Accessed 16 Oct. 2025.

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