big tech

See also: Big Tech

English

Noun

big tech (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of Big Tech.
    • 2025 September 4, “What the splinternet means for big tech: Unpleasant new trade-offs, for starters”, in The Economist[1]:
      The demise of “de minimis”, as the exemption is known, is the latest, symbolic reminder to digital darlings that frontiers exist—and that business models built on their absence are in need of a rethink.

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English big tech.

Pronunciation

  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈbi.ɡi ˈtɛ.ki/

Noun

big tech f (countable and uncountable, plural big techs)

  1. (uncountable) big tech
  2. (countable) a big tech company
    A legislação protege os consumidores contra as big techs.
    Legislation protects consumers from Big Tech [companies].