amazon
see also: Amazon
Pronunciation Noun
Amazon
Pronunciation Noun
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see also: Amazon
Pronunciation Noun
amazon (plural amazons)
- A tall, strong, athletic woman.
- Although the evidence for real Amazons is thin, women athletes are often dubbed amazons.
Amazon
Pronunciation Noun
amazon (plural amazons)
- (Greek mythology) A member of a mythical race of female warriors inhabiting the Black Sea area.
- A female warrior.
- A tall, strong, or athletic woman.
- (sometimes, attributive) A river in South America that flows through Brazil for about 4000 miles to the South Atlantic.
- (sometimes, attributive) A region including much of this river; specifically, the region of the Amazon Rainforest, or of the Amazon River Basin.
- Amazon milk frog
- French: Amazone
- German: Amazonas
- Italian: Rio delle Amazzoni, Amazzoni
- Portuguese: Amazonas
- Russian: Амазо́нка
- Spanish: Amazonas
- French: amazonien
- Russian: амазо́нский
amazon (plural amazons)
- Any of the large parrots from the genus Amazona.
- Amazon.com Inc, a very large internet retailer
amazon (amazons, present participle amazoning; past and past participle amazoned)
- (transitive) To overwhelm or obliterate, in the context of an Internet start-up vastly outperforming its brick-and-mortar competition.
- 1998, George Anders, "Discomfort Zone: Some Big Companies Long to Embrace Web But Settle for Flirtation — They Fear Online Marketing Could Cause Sales Staffs And Distributors to Rebel — A Risk of Getting ‘Amazoned’", The Wall Street Journal, 1998-11-04, p. A1.
- 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.
- 1999, Andrew Wileman, "Smart cookies: Get set to Amazon", Management Today. Aug 1999, p. 79
- Venture capitalists' desks are thick with business plans promising ‘we're going to Amazon the insurance/travel/property business...’
- 1999, Tim Smith, InternetWeek (786), "Getting Customers Totally Integrated – Cisco CIO Pete Solvik", 1999-10-25, p. 98
- 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.
- 1999, "Amazon Expands", InternetWeek (789), 1999-11-15, p. 11
- Amazon.com may soon be "amazoning" a few more industries.
- 2000, Bob Tedeschi, "E-Commerce Report: Web and catalog businesses are crossing into storefront territory, creating parallel avenues of retailing", The New York Times, 2000-11-20, p. C12
- Gone are the days when they agonized about being "Amazoned", or blind-sided by a dot-com ....
- 2001, Saul Hansell, "Web Sales of Airline Tickets Are Making Hefty Advances", The New York Times, 2001-07-04, p. A1
- 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.
- 2001, Steve Lohr, "Gearhead Nation: A Time Out for Technophilia", The New York Times, 2001-11-18, p. WK4
- Meanwhile, traditional companies would be obliterated — "Amazoned" — by Internet upstarts.
- 2002, Scott Harris, "Roots in Israel, Head in Silicon Valley", The New York Times, 2002-06-30, p. B8
- "Everybody was afraid of getting Amazoned," Mr. Landan said. "They didn't want to get left behind."
- 1998, George Anders, "Discomfort Zone: Some Big Companies Long to Embrace Web But Settle for Flirtation — They Fear Online Marketing Could Cause Sales Staffs And Distributors to Rebel — A Risk of Getting ‘Amazoned’", The Wall Street Journal, 1998-11-04, p. A1.
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