Definition of intranet
: a network operating like the World Wide Web but having access restricted to a limited group of authorized users (such as employees of a company)
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Recent Examples of intranet from the Web
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Deutsche Bank AG, with some 30,000 employees eligible, received 134 inquiries during the first quarter, even though Germany’s biggest lender has ready-made forms on its employee intranet site.
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SharePoint is primarily used by businesses to organize documents, build intranet sites, and manage content internally.
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In China, for instance, the government controls what people can find on the intranet.
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Google’s employee intranet is filled with tools enabling its 80,000 employees to broadcast their opinions.
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In 2003, one year before Facebook was founded, a website called Facemash began nonconsensually scraping pictures of students at Harvard from the school’s intranet and asking users to rate their hotness.
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In conjunction with the announcement of the Westworld immersive activation at SXSW, the show’s official Twitter account posts a link to the Delos Destination intranet.
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Emory Healthcare employees should refer to the EHC intranet and to emails from Emory Healthcare for information on operations and procedures.
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Instructions posted on an employee intranet portal say the company’s confidential hotline is for accounting or securities issues, not for harassment complaints.
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First Known Use of intranet
1977
INTRANET Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of intranet for English Language Learners
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computers : a network that works like the Internet but can only be used by certain people (such as the employees of a company)
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