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PRONUNCIATION OF SOFT LAUNCH

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SOFT LAUNCH

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Soft launch is a verb and can also act as a noun.
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WHAT DOES SOFT LAUNCH MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Soft launch

A soft launch is the release of a website, hotel, or other product or service to a limited audience. Soft-launching is a method for gathering data on a product's usage and acceptance in the marketplace, before making it generally available as a hard launch or grand opening. Companies may choose a soft launch to test the viability of a product or to fine tune a product before implementing a larger marketing effort.

Definition of soft launch in the English dictionary

The definition of soft launch in the dictionary is the launch of a website in stages, with regular updating. Other definition of soft launch is to implement the soft launch of.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SOFT LAUNCH

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WORDS THAT END LIKE SOFT LAUNCH

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launch
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prelaunch
press launch
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Synonyms and antonyms of soft launch in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «soft launch» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SOFT LAUNCH

Find out the translation of soft launch to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of soft launch from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «soft launch» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

软启动
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

lanzamiento suave
570 millions of speakers

English

soft launch
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

मुलायम लांच
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

إطلاق لينة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

мягкий запуск
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

soft launch
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

নরম প্রবর্তন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

lancement en douceur
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pelancaran lembut
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Soft Launch
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ソフト起動
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

소프트 출시
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Peluncuran alus
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

khởi động mềm
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மென்மையான துவக்கம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मऊ लॉन्च
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Yumuşak fırlatma
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

lancio morbido
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

miękkie rozpoczęcie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

м´який запуск
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

lansare moale
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μαλακή έναρξη
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

sagte bekendstelling
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

mjuk lansering
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

soft launch
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of soft launch

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SOFT LAUNCH»

The term «soft launch» is regularly used and occupies the 62.423 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SOFT LAUNCH» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about soft launch

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SOFT LAUNCH»

Discover the use of soft launch in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to soft launch and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Soft launch
This is the first title in the publishing collaboration, B Is for Beans, with Pressed Wafer, which features Boston-based poets. Also available from SPD is the Jim Dunn title CONVENIENT HOLE.
Jim Dunn, 2008
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Web Project Management: Delivering Successful Commercial Web ...
These two main approaches to launching a site can be called "soft" launch and " hard" launch. With a soft launch, you are much more understated and subtle about releasing your product. There are many reasons you might want to do this: you ...
Ashley Friedlein, 2001
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Articles on Weapon Operation, Including: Air Launch, Soft ...
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
Hephaestus Books, 2011
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The Art of the App Store: The Business of Apple Development
To be best prepared for your main launch, a good plan might be to release in a smaller market early (which is called a soft launch) in order to get more data and make any fixes or tweaks prior to your theoretically more important core launch in  ...
Tyson McCann, 2011
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Luxury Online: Styles, Systems, Strategies
When Galeries Lafayette was questioned over this, their explanation was that it was “only a soft launch” to test the market. The public's reaction was “How could such a retail institution get it so wrong?” and I would add “after two decades of the  ...
Uché Okonkwo, 2010
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Shark Tank Jump Start Your Business: How to Launch and Grow ...
One of the great benefits ofa soft launch is that it provides additional time to get everything up and running. Whether that involves training staff, building your supply chain, orjust getting your financials in order, asoft launch generally provides ...
Michael Parrish DuDell, 2013
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Building Social Web Applications
Soft-Launch. Approach. Following the advice in Chapter 16 about a soft-launch approach, you should have knocked the rough edges off your application and should now be ready to show it to strangers. If you have a social application that ...
Gavin Bell, 2009
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Expert Product Management: Advanced Techniques, Tips & ...
Soft Launch The first type of launch is a soft launch. Oftentimes companies will do this type of launch if their product isn't fully ready yet and they want to deploy to a limited set of customers. Startups often do this because they do not have the ...
Brian Lawley, 2007
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Introduction to Agile Methods
Another way to deliver things to the market while maintaining flexibility is to perform a soft launch, which is release to a limited audience with little or no marketing announcing the new feature (McMahon 2013). This can be an ideal option when ...
Sondra Ashmore Ph.D., Kristin Runyan, 2014
10
Using LibGuides to Enhance Library Services: A LITA Guide
Launch Strategy and Marketing options There are two basic release strategies: a hard launch and a soft launch. A hard launch involves creating a comprehensive set of guides and intensively marketing LibGuides to your intended users.
Aaron W. Dobbs, Ryan L. Sittler, Douglas Cook, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SOFT LAUNCH»

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Rayman Adventures is free to play (and out now in soft-launch)
The game just appeared on the New Zealand App Store, as part of a soft launch, and it hasn't got a price point. "Rayman Adventures is a free to play game," ... «Pocket Gamer, Jul 15»
2
Ticketleap's soft launch of Met didn't work out as planned. And that's …
In March, we decided — on a somewhat last-minute whim — that we'd soft launch Met at Philly Tech Week. And, here's the thing: it didn't go the way we wanted ... «Technical.ly Philly, May 15»
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Come to GDC Europe for tips on soft-launching your next mobile game
Proletariat CEO Seth Sivak will be delivering a novel talk on beta-testing mobile games called "Doing It Live: Postmortem of a Nine Month Soft Launch." He'll tell ... «Gamasutra, May 15»
4
Xiaomi Announces Soft Launch in the West
Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun attends the launch of the new Xiaomi smartphone at National Convention Center on July 22, 2014 in Beijing, China. China's smartphone ... «Billboard, May 15»
5
Lucinda's has soft launch of online sales
She's having a soft launch of the site right now. “We're going to do it like we did our store location where we start small and then grow.” Reimers says a lot of ... «Wichita Eagle, May 15»
6
Amazon Rival Tests E-Commerce Waters With Soft Launch
While a small group of family and friends have tested Jet, the soft launch marks the first time the product will be in the hands of independent consumers. «Forbes, Apr 15»
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Artemis to soft launch emerging market equity fund
A spokesperson from Artemis said the firm's “intention is not to market the fund actively until at least 2016” and that the fund would have a “soft-launch” for a ... «FT Adviser, Mar 15»
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Rovio Soft Launches Angry Birds: Under Pigstruction
Now in soft launch on the Canadian App Store, Angry Birds: Under Pigstruction seems to answer that very question. It's a free-to-play offering with familiar ... «Gamezebo, Mar 15»
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ZeptoLab Soft Launches Two New Games: 'Survivor Squad' and …
Check out the original soft launch forum thread for what was then known as Thieves. Well, now that we've caught on to their tricks, similar art styles are also ... «Touch Arcade, Feb 15»
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Xenoblade Chronicles X Development Winding Down, Monolith Soft
... Chronicles X Development Winding Down, Monolith Soft Launches Website ... game, but Monolith Soft may be more forthcoming with details moving forward. «Gameranx, Nov 14»

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