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Määritelmät
Substantiivit
- (Greek mythology) A member of a mythical race of female warriors inhabiting the Black Sea area.
- Any of the large parrots from the genus Amazona.
- A female warrior.
- A tall, strong, or athletic woman.
Erisnimet
- A river of South America that flows through Brazil for about 4000 miles to the South Atlantic.
- Amazon.com Inc, a very large internet retailer
- A region including much of this river; specifically, the region of the Amazon Rainforest, or of the Amazon River Basin.
Verbit
- (transitive) To overwhelm or obliterate, in the context of an Internet start-up vastly outperforming its brick-and-mortar competition.
Esimerkit
- the Amazon River; the Amazon Rainforest; the Amazon Basin
- Amazon milk frog
- Those who hesitate risk being "amazoned," forfeiting business to an Internet newcomer, in the way that bookstore chains have lost ground to Amazon.com Inc., the online bookseller.
- Venture capitalists' desks are thick with business plans promising ‘we're going to Amazon the insurance/travel/property business...’
- Take the example of MetalSite.com, which is owned by steel companies. The steel companies aren't getting "Amazoned" by a start-up but, rather, they are doing the "Amazoning" within their own industry.
- Amazon.com may soon be "amazoning" a few more industries.
- Gone are the days when they agonized about being "Amazoned", or blind-sided by a dot-com ....
- In other industries, established companies are pulling people and money away from their Internet operations, as their fear of being "Amazoned" by start-ups has subsided.
- Meanwhile, traditional companies would be obliterated — "Amazoned" — by Internet upstarts.
- "Everybody was afraid of getting Amazoned," Mr. Landan said. "They didn't want to get left behind."
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