E-COMMERCEinformationthat is put onto awebsiteorCD-ROMwithout beingcheckedorchangedto makesurethat it issuitableoruseful:Any CD thatpromises10,000 "professionalfonts" for $3 is shovelware.ITsoftwarethat is put onto acomputerthat is notnecessaryoruseful:Hardwarevendorstendtodumpa lot of shovelware onpackagedPCs.(Definition ofshovelwarefrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary? Cambridge University Press)
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shovelwareSoftware reviewers, displeased with huge collections of inconsistent quality, dubbed this practiceshovelware.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The termshovelwareis coined by semantic analogy to phrases like shareware and freeware, which describe methods of software distribution.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The prevalence ofshovelwarehas decreased due to the practice of downloading individual programs from a crowdsourced or curated app store becoming the predominant mode of software distribution.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.His term for these disks wasshovelware.From theCambridge English CorpusThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/shovelware##
