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E-commerce

Meaning in e-commerce, with examples

/ˈiːˌkɑːmərs/nounCore term

In e-commerce, e-commerce means: Buying and selling goods or services over the internet, including everything around it: online stores, payments, delivery and customer service.

In Turkish: e-ticaret, elektronik ticaret, online ticaret

How it is used

The general name of the sector and of the job. People work in e-commerce, run an e-commerce business or join an e-commerce team. It is also used as an adjective: e-commerce site, e-commerce manager. You will see it written as ecommerce or eCommerce too.

Example sentences

  1. Before moving into e-commerce, I worked in a physical clothing store for six years.

  2. Our e-commerce sales now make up almost half of the company's revenue.

Common collocations

  • e-commerce business
  • e-commerce site
  • e-commerce manager
  • e-commerce sales
  • work in e-commerce
  • online storeA website or app where a business shows its products and customers can order and pay for them without visiting a physical shop.
  • marketplaceA large website or app where many independent sellers list and sell their products, while the platform handles traffic, payments and often delivery rules.
  • e-commerce platformSoftware used to build and run an online store, covering the product catalog, cart, checkout, payments, orders and integrations with other tools.
  • B2CShort for business-to-consumer: a business selling directly to individual people who buy for their own use, as most online shops do.
  • cross-border e-commerceSelling products online to customers in other countries, which brings extra work such as customs, international shipping, currencies and local languages.

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