英和和英

語源

Blend of software +‎ works

名詞

softworks (複数形 softworks)

1. (in company names) A company that produces software.
   • 1988, InfoWorld (volume 10, number 6)

     As Macworld Expo neared last month, Word Perfect and Ann Arbor Softworks faced returning to the show without final versions of their eagerly awaited high-end Mac word processors.

   • 1993, Network World (volume 10, number 13, page 15)

     Pacific Softworks was formed from the buy out of Network Research Corp.'s assets.

   • 1997, InfoWorld (volume 19, number 18, page 118)

     Briggs Softworks' product sports powerful feature set

   • 2018, Sebastian Deterding, ‎José Zagal, Role-Playing Game Studies: Transmedia Foundations

     Best known for The Elder Scrolls games and its revival of the Fallout series, Bethesda Softworks was founded in 1986 by Christopher Weaver and takes its name from the location of its headquarters in Bethesda, Maryland.