softworks

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noun

A company that produces software.

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Meanings

nounsoftworks (plural softworks)
  1. A company that produces software.

    Briggs Softworks' product sports powerful feature set

    1997, InfoWorld, volume 19, number 18, page 118
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    As Macworld Expo neared last month, Word Perfect and Ann Arbor Softworks faced returning to the show without final versions of their eagerly awaited high-end Mac word processors.

    1988, InfoWorld, volume 10, number 6

    Pacific Softworks was formed from the buy out of Network Research Corp.'s assets.

    1993, Network World, volume 10, number 13, page 15

    Best known for The Elder Scrolls games and its revival of the Fallout series, Bethesda Softworks was founded in 1986 by Christopher Weaver and takes its name from the location of its headquarters in Bethesda, Maryland.

    2018, Sebastian Deterding, José Zagal, Role-Playing Game Studies: Transmedia Foundations

Origin

Blend of software + works.

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APA

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