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Amazon.com, Inc., [1] doing business as Amazon (/ ˈ æ m ə z ɒ n /, AM-ə-zon; UK also / ˈ æ m ə z ə n /, AM-ə-zən), is an American multinational technology company engaged in e-commerce, cloud computing, online advertising, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence. [5]
Amazon acquires Whole Foods for $13.7 billion, a grocery-store chain located throughout the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada. [148] 2017 September 7 Company Amazon began search for Amazon HQ2, a second company headquarters to house up to 50,000 employees. [149] [150] 2018 January 18 Company
American English, sometimes called United States English or U.S. English, [b] is the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States. [4] English is the most widely spoken language in the United States; an official language in 32 of the 50 U.S. states; and the de facto common language used in government, education, and commerce throughout the nation. [5]
foundation, starting point; many meanings in sciences, architecture, politics, military installation, etc.; see base many figurative senses derived from baseball, e.g. off one's base (crazy), to get to first base (esp. in neg. constr., to get a first important result); more recently (slang), a metaphor for one of three different stages in ...
(used in the name of the United States Postal Service; see mail) (going postal) to commit a sudden, irrational burst of rage (slang) pound sign symbol of the pound sterling (£) number sign, octothorpe (#) (UK: hash sign) precinct: a pedestrian zone in a city or town ("a shopping precinct") a space enclosed (as by walls)
Amazon Cash (in the United States and Canada) and Amazon Top Up (in the United Kingdom) are services allowing Amazon shoppers to add money to their Amazon account at a physical retail store. [135] The service, launched in April 2017, allows users to add between $5 and $500 (£5 and £250) to their accounts by paying with cash at a participating ...
An industry word is a specialized kind of technical terminology used in a certain industry. Industry words and phrases are often used in a specific area, and those in that field know and use the terminology. [25] Precise technical terms and their definitions are formally recognized, documented, and taught by educators in the field.
American English has always shown a marked tendency to use nouns as verbs. [13] Examples of verbed nouns are interview, advocate, vacuum, lobby, pressure, rear-end, transition, feature, profile, spearhead, skyrocket, showcase, service (as a car), corner, torch, exit (as in "exit the lobby"), factor (in mathematics), gun ("shoot"), author (which disappeared in English around 1630 and was ...