Question of the Day #1054

The $7 Billion Japanese E-Tailer That's Targeting the USA

From the headline of this article at Business of Fashion.

  上記の文で、e-tailerの意味は？
In the sentence above, what does "e-tailer" mean?

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解答

意味：
英辞郎によると、

《イ》Eテイラー◆可算◆インターネットを利用して商売する小売業者のこと。もともとは「e-retailer」であったが、発音しにくいのでこのように言う。◆【同】online merchant

   

Answer

According to the Cambridge Dictionary:

a business that uses the internet to sell its products

 

Examples

• This company is the biggest wine e-tailer in California.
• Spend it online, and unless you live in exactly the same community as the e-tailer, nothing comes home. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0
• Ultimately, however, the potential for a violation of one's privacy is typically out of their hands after purchasing from an online e-tailer or store.
• As opposed to e-tailers, micro-finance is a distinctly low technology business.
• Other frequent and potentially long-lived words include e-book, e-business, e-commerce, e-shopping, and e-tailer, but the popularity of such coinages as e-ballot, e-grocer, e-zine, and many others remains to be seen.

   

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