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com
com(on the internet) a top-level domain appearing as a suffix on domain names used for commercial establishments.
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COM
COMnounComedy Central: a cable television channel.
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com-
com-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.
com.abbreviationcomedy.
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Com.
Com.abbreviationCommander.
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.com
.comPart of the Internet address of many companies and organizations. It indicates that the site is commercial, as opposed to educational or governmental.
com
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Trademark. Comedy Central: a cable television channel.
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computer output on microfilm.
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comedy.
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comma.
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command.
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commander.
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commerce.
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commercial.
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commission.
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commissioner.
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committee.
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common.
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commonly.
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communications.
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Commander.
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Commission.
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Commissioner.
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Committee.
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Commodore.
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Commonwealth.
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Commander
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committee
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Commodore
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prefix
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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-3
< Latin, variant of preposition cum with
Example Sentences
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“I think that irrational exuberance that we saw in the dot com era … is just window dressing to cloak what, to me, is normalizing an addictive behavior in our society,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● May 19, 2026
There is a lot in the Bloomstran analysis for Berkshire watchers who want to get a good grasp of the com plex company amid the leadership transition.
From Barron's ● Feb. 26, 2026
And stay tuned to Slate dot com for coverage of the verdict.
From Slate ● Nov. 2, 2023
And Jesus seand the pepile, went up into an hill: and quhen he was set, his discipilis com to him:
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2023
He rolled down his window and spat com and bits of metal filling into the wind.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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"Then we directly compared our simulations with other laboratory experiments that produce COMs under realistic astrophysical conditions. The results showed that COM formation is possible in both the protosolar nebula environment and Jupiter's circumplanetary disk."
From Science Daily ● Mar. 1, 2026
The first five steps, known as COM, or Chief of Mission, approval, are where the Afghan proves he or she actually did serve with American troops, and faces danger for having done so.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 28, 2022
Once COM approval is in hand, applicants then must apply to Homeland Security’s citizenship agency, sending a new set of forms.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 28, 2022
Those are people who’d already cleared the COM step, meaning they were authentic allies.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 28, 2022
"Why not talk to Lewis? Let's go to CAP- COM and ask her directly."
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
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First, the Act adopts the guaranteed issue and com- munity rating requirements.
From MSNBC ● Jun. 25, 2015
But during the second half of 2008, the belief in higher com- modity prices vanished.
From MSNBC ● Jun. 4, 2014
The company’s walled- garden approach brought huge numbers of new users to networked com- puting in the United States.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 20, 2013
It was received with this same sense of urgency and hands-on involvement, starting an avalanche of critique, coding, collaboration, and com- mentary.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 18, 2013
I certainly knew the two numbers I’d played; I knew I’d told him to com- binate only one of them.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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He said he was "trying to save his own skin. Last ditch dot com. Trying to save his own bacon".
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2017
Embassy of Italy, 3000 Whitehaven St. NW. 202-612-4400. embassyexperiences. com. $79-$112.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 20, 2017
Convair has also started to build a military transport model of the plane, the C-99, expects it to carry 400 com. pletely equipped infantrymen.
From Time Magazine Archive
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“I’m inquiring about my sister. She was purchasing com. Did she by any chance come by here today?”
From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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Looking at me, he said, “Shell a sack of com. Take one of the mules and go to the mill for your mother.”
From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls
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At The Jim Henson Com. she has served as producer of animated series "Frances" and "The Skrumps," and was the executive producer on "Sid, the Science Kid."
From Reuters ● Jun. 13, 2010
But their most novel creation was the Trans-Pecos Chemical Com., which was not a company or a corporation but a "commonwealth."
From Time Magazine Archive
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Report of the Com. of the House of Commons.
From A History of English Prose Fiction by Bayard Tuckerman
Com. of the Mass. Senate; was in daily conference with John A. Andrew, the great war Governor—and could, by a "pull" have easily secured them.
From On the Trail of Deserters A Phenomenal Capture by Captain Robert Goldthwaite Carter
Com. on Raw Materials, Minerals and Metals, also commr. in charge of purchasing for the War Industries Bd., and mem. commn. in charge of all purchases for the Allies; apptd. chmn.
From The Mirrors of Washington by John Kirby
But he adds: "Having said that, I still think over the long-term, .com domains will maintain their value better and for longer."
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2025
According to militarymachine.com, each F/A-18 Hornet costs more than $34 million, and they cost $6.5 million a year to operate, statista .com has reported, citing General Accounting Office data.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 4, 2022
It also helps to donate money using a check or credit card, give only to websites with a .org rather than .com address and avoid automated messages requesting personal information, the agency added.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 4, 2022
On March 15, 1985, the first .com domain name was registered to a computer company out of Massachusetts named Symbolics.
From Salon ● Dec. 22, 2021
I do a search, and it’s available—www.germmagazine .com.
From "All The Bright Places" by Jennifer Niven
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