dot-commer

UK/dɒtˈkɒmə/

noun

Someone who works (or worked) for a dotcom company.

First used 1990s
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Meanings

noundot-commer (plural dot-commers)

plural dot-commers · alternative dotcomer · alternative dotcommer

  1. computingSomeone who works (or worked) for a dotcom company.First known use 1990s
    1 more example

    Maxine has joined her sister Brooke's state-of-the-art health club Megareps around the corner but isn't quite used yet to this nightly spectacle of yups on treadmills, plodding to nowhere while watching CNN or the sports channels, laid-off dotcommers who aren't at strip clubs or absorbed into massively multiplayer online games […]

    2013, Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge, Vintage, published 2014, page 448

Origin

From dot-com + -er.

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APA

dot-commer. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dot-commer

MLA

“dot-commer.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dot-commer. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “dot-commer,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dot-commer.

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