e-tailer

n. An Internet-based retail operation.

Other Forms

e-tailing n.

Etymology

electronic + retailer

Examples

1997

Yahoo was part of last year's hot Internet play: search engines. Now, if stock peddlers have their way, it's the turn of Internet retailers — or e-tailers, as they're known.

—Allan Sloan, “You Can Find Lots on the Web, Except Maybe an Operating Profit,” The Washington Post, April 22, 1997

1995

—“Wal-Mart, E-tailers headline net confab,” Discount Store News, September 18, 1995

1995 (earliest)

E-tailing: Another one of those dubious "e-" abbreviations. This one is for "electronic retailing."

—Gareth Branwyn, “Jargon Watch,” Wired, April 01, 1995

Filed Under

ecommerce retail

Some Related Words

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Posted: May 10, 1997