pureplay

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adjective

Involved with a single product.

Scrabble 15
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Meanings

adjectivepureplay (not comparable)
  1. not comparablebusinessInvolved with a single product.

    Chang gained trust by allaying fears that TSMC would steal designs, as pure-play foundries have no use of them; TSMC stealing from chip designers would be like a printing press stealing plots from novelists.

    2023 March 21, Virginia Heffernan, “I Saw the Face of God in a Semiconductor Factory”, in WIRED
  2. not comparablebusinessWhose sole business activity is over the Internet.

Origin

From pure + play.

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Cite this entry
APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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