original equipment manufacturer

noun

: oem

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Scout Motors could consider opportunities with other original equipment manufacturer, whether within or outside the Volkswagen Group, if the company has available capacity. Tom Rogers, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Apr. 2025 Some have logical names (like how OSA keycaps are a fusion of OEM—original equipment manufacturer—and SA—spherical all—sculpts), while others are a bit silly (PBS stands for Penguin Belly Slide). Henri Robbins, WIRED, 24 Mar. 2025 Imagine a world where that motor continuously sends operational data back to the original equipment manufacturer (OEM), giving them visibility into its performance. Chris Turlica, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024 And Google mandated to its OEMs [original equipment manufacturer, such as phone maker Samsung] that its search engine had to be the exclusive default preinstalled on all Android phones. Ben Guarino, Scientific American, 7 Aug. 2024 See All Example Sentences for original equipment manufacturer

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First Known Use

1967, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of original equipment manufacturer was in 1967

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“Original equipment manufacturer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/original%20equipment%20manufacturer. Accessed 18 May. 2025.

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