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Definition of cord cutter in English: cord cutternoun informal A person who cancels or forgoes a pay television subscription or landline phone connection in favour of an alternative Internet-based or wireless service. the ranks of the cord cutters are growing, adding to the incipient rebellion around pay TV Example sentencesExamples - Perhaps intoxicated by the money they think they're saving, cord cutters tend to be evangelical about their lifestyle.
- Even cord cutters needed the modern equivalent of bunny ears if they wanted to get live news on their television.
- The vast majority of these cord cutters are college students and twenty-somethings, experts say.
- While the number of cord cutters might be lower this year, it's hard to deny the number of new cable and satellite subscribers is slowing down.
- Already, cord cutters are dropping cable or satellite to watch TV through iPads or game consoles.
- Until recently these cord cutters have had little effect on the subscription TV market.
- Pay-TV companies and networks need to make a change to stop the loss of cord cutters and entice the potential audience that's never paid for TV.
- Once a specialty niche favored by geeks and cord cutters, these gadgets are some of the hottest items around.
- But are cord cutters willing to spend the cash for content?
- According to a recent survey, 33 percent of cord cutters would not return to cable, even if the cost was drastically reduced.
Definition of cord cutter in US English: cord cutternoun informal A person who cancels or forgoes a cable television subscription or landline phone connection in favor of an alternative Internet-based or wireless service. a popular way for cord cutters to view programming on their TV is with a streaming video box Example sentencesExamples - According to a recent survey, 33 percent of cord cutters would not return to cable, even if the cost was drastically reduced.
- Perhaps intoxicated by the money they think they're saving, cord cutters tend to be evangelical about their lifestyle.
- Once a specialty niche favored by geeks and cord cutters, these gadgets are some of the hottest items around.
- The vast majority of these cord cutters are college students and twenty-somethings, experts say.
- Pay-TV companies and networks need to make a change to stop the loss of cord cutters and entice the potential audience that's never paid for TV.
- Until recently these cord cutters have had little effect on the subscription TV market.
- But are cord cutters willing to spend the cash for content?
- Even cord cutters needed the modern equivalent of bunny ears if they wanted to get live news on their television.
- Already, cord cutters are dropping cable or satellite to watch TV through iPads or game consoles.
- While the number of cord cutters might be lower this year, it's hard to deny the number of new cable and satellite subscribers is slowing down.
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