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online

 adjective
     
Related topics: Computers
on‧line
1TD connected to other computers through the Internet, or available through the Internet [≠ offline]:
All the city's schools will be online by the end of the year.
2TDTD directly connected to or controlled by a computer [≠ off-line]:
an online printer
—online adverb:
The reports are not available online yet.
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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