e-commerce

See also: eCommerce

English

Alternative forms

• E-commerce, e-Commerce, eCommerce, electronic commerce

Etymology

From e- +‎ commerce.

Pronunciation

• Audio (US):

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Noun

e-commerce (uncountable)

1. (Internet, business) Commercial activity conducted via the Internet.

   Synonym: e-comms

   • 2006, Cristian Darie, Karli Watson, Beginning ASP.NET 2.0 E-Commerce in C# 2005, Apress, →ISBN, page xxi:

     The last thing you need to do before launching the e-commerce site is enable credit card processing.

Hypernyms

• commerce

Translations

commercial activity conducted via the Internet

• Arabic: تِجَارَة إِلِكْتْرُونِيَّة f (tijāra ʔiliktrōniyya)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 電子商貿／电子商贸 (diànzǐ shāngmào), 電子商務／电子商务 (zh) (diànzǐ shāngwù), e商務／e商务 (e-shāngwù), e商業／e商业 (e-shāngyè), 電商／电商 (zh) (diànshāng)

• Dutch: electronic commerce, e-commerce (nl)
• Finnish: verkkokauppa (fi), verkkokaupankäynti
• French: commerce électronique (fr) f, vente en ligne (fr) f
• Georgian: ელექტრონული კომერცია (elekṭronuli ḳomercia)
• German: elektronischer Handel m, Internethandel (de) m, Online-Handel m
• Hungarian: e-kereskedelem (hu)
• Italian: e-commerce (it) m, commercio elettronico (it) m, telecommercio m (rare)
• Japanese: 電子商取引 (でんししょうとりひき, denshi-shō-torihiki), イーコマース (īkomāsu), eコマース (e-komāsu)
• Korean: 전자 상업(電子商業) (jeonja sang'eop), e상업 (e-sang'eop)
• Polish: handel elektroniczny m, handel internetowy m
• Portuguese: comércio eletrónico m (Portugal), comércio eletrônico m (Brazil)
• Russian: электро́нная комме́рция (ru) f (elektrónnaja kommércija)
• Spanish: comercio electrónico m, e-commerce f
• Turkish: e-ticaret (tr)
• Vietnamese: thương mại điện tử (vi)

See also

• e-trade
• social commerce

Further reading

• e-commerce on Wikipedia.Wikipedia