e-commerce

See also: eCommerce

English

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

e- +‎ commerce

Noun

e-commerce (uncountable)

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

Translations

commercial activity conducted via the Internet

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

  Mandarin: 電子商貿／电子商贸, 电子商贸 (diànzǐ shāngmào), 電子商務／电子商务 (zh) (diànzǐ shāngwù), 电子商务 (zh) (diànzǐ shāngwù), e商務／e商务 (yìshāngwù), e商务 (e-shāngwù), e商業／e商业 (yìshāngyè), e商业 (e-shāngyè), 電商／电商 (zh) (diànshāng), 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
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• Hungarian: e-kereskedelem
• 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
• Vietnamese: thương mại điện tử (vi)

Usage notes

e-commerce when used in the body of a sentence or paragraph. e-Commerce when used at the beginning, or in the body, of a headline or title where all significant words are capitalized. E-commerce only when used at the beginning of a sentence.

See also

• e-trade
• social commerce

Further reading

• e-commerce on Wikipedia.Wikipedia