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CEFRA2

/ˈɒnlaɪn/

adjective

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At a glance

Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

Also pronounced

Deep Dive

Extra meanings

Of a system: connected (generally electrically) to a larger network.
Of a generator or power plant: connected to the grid.
Of a computer: actively connected to the Internet or to some other communications service.

In context

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The online world was meant to be an open system but has become dominated by huge corporations.
2024 May 4, John Naughton, “The internet is in decline – it needs rewilding”, in The Guardian
In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%.
2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8837, page 74
To borrow an idiom from the extremely online, late Godard is a mood.
2019, A.O. Scott, “'The Image Book' Review: Godard Looks at Violence, and Movies”, in The New York Times
“If we were doing a family vlog inside the house, I would not want my feet in the video. At all.” He would wear socks. He is very online. He sees the conversations.
2025 April 27, Lisa Miller, Maggie Shannon, “When a Child’s Life Becomes the Family Business”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
Well, things are getting pretty serious right now. I mean, we chat online for, like, two hours every day so I guess you could say things are gettin' pretty serious.
2004, Jared Hess, Jerusha Hess, Napoleon Dynamite (motion picture), spoken by Kip (Aaron Ruell)

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1950, from on + line.