| 单词 | shovelware |
| 释义 | shovelware noun[U] disapprovinguk/ˈʃʌvəlweər/usE-COMMERCE informationthat is put onto awebsiteorCD-ROMwithout beingcheckedorchangedto makesurethat it issuitableoruseful: Any CD thatpromises10,000 "professionalfonts" for $3 is shovelware. IT softwarethat is put onto acomputerthat is notnecessaryoruseful: Hardwarevendorstendtodumpa lot of shovelware onpackagedPCs. Examplesofshovelwareshovelware Software reviewers, displeased with huge collections of inconsistent quality, dubbed this practiceshovelware. From Wikipedia  This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The termshovelwareis coined by semantic analogy to phrases like shareware and freeware, which describe methods of software distribution. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The prevalence ofshovelwarehas decreased due to the practice of downloading individual programs from a crowdsourced or curated app store becoming the predominant mode of software distribution. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.His term for these disks wasshovelware. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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