electronically
advUK /ˌɛl.ɛkˈtɹɒn.ɪk.li/ · CA, US /ɪˌlɛkˈtɹɑ.nɪk.li/
Etymology From electronic + -ally.
1
By means of electronics, or of electronic technology.
- In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%.2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8837, page 74: