Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

on-prem

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.28 in modern English

Syllables: on-prem
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Installed and run on computers on the premises of the organisation that uses it, and not elsewhere (such as in a server farm or in the cloud).

Example Sentences

"on-prem resources"
"A maintenance window for an on-prem system can look like a service problem from the hosting provider. Security can be difficult in this scenario, especially for multi-tenant arrangements, but there are models that work for this."

Etymology

Clipping of on premises.

Antonyms

off-prem

Questions

What does on-prem mean?: Installed and run on computers on the premises of the organisation that uses it, and not elsewhere (such as in a server farm or in the cloud).
Where does on-prem come from?: Clipping of on premises.

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