Venmo

名词 n. 动词 v.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An account on the Venmo peer-to-peer mobile payment system. informal
    — It was part of a larger trend of monetizing the demand for unpaid emotional labor that became bigger and bigger after the 2016 election. At first, posting a Venmo or CashApp “for emotional labor” was something I noticed activists doing, usually Black women who were being asked to donate their time and expertise for free to the public, and even to private institutions with the budget to pay them.
动词 v.
  1. To use the Venmo peer-to-peer mobile payment system, originally principally for splitting bills such as for food, drinks, entertainment, and transportation. informal,intransitive
    — Don’t want to bother splitting the brunch check five ways? Split it two ways instead, and three people will have some Venmoing to do.
  2. To transfer money to someone using the Venmo peer-to-peer mobile payment system. ditransitive,informal
    — "Keeps to himself," he said, "Venmos the rent. Never calls to fix nothin'." In other words, a perfect tenant.

词形变化

Venmos plural Venmos present,singular,third-person Venmoing participle,present Venmoed participle,past Venmoed past Venmo'd participle,past Venmo'd past venmo alternative

词源

词源 1
After the Venmo mobile payment system. According to co-founder Andrew Kortina, the name was formed as a blend of Latin vēndere (“to sell”) + mobile, for the following reasons:
We were exploring the Latin root vendere “sell” and mo for mobile, but purely as a means to get to a name that (1) was short, 5-6 letters, (2) could be a verb, (3) didn’t have a unintuitive spelling, and (4) was cheap. Venmo was available on GoDaddy and met the important criteria, so we grabbed it.
词源 2
After the Venmo mobile payment system. According to co-founder Andrew Kortina, the name was formed as a blend of Latin vēndere (“to sell”) + mobile, for the following reasons:
We were exploring the Latin root vendere “sell” and mo for mobile, but purely as a means to get to a name that (1) was short, 5-6 letters, (2) could be a verb, (3) didn’t have a unintuitive spelling, and (4) was cheap. Venmo was available on GoDaddy and met the important criteria, so we grabbed it.
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