trade name
See also: tradename
English
[edit]| Examples (name used to identify a product) |
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Pronunciation
[edit]Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]trade name (plural trade names)
- A name used to identify a commercial product or service; may or may not be a registered trademark.
- Antonyms: generic name; description
- Near-synonyms: brandname, brand name, trademark
- (medicine, pharmacology) The company-specific name for a drug (medication), in contrast with a nonproprietary name such as an INN (international nonproprietary name), USAN (United States adopted name), JAN (Japanese accepted name), and so on.
- Patients who come to the pharmacy counter may remember the trade name of their prescription but not the nonproprietary name, or vice versa.
- The name under which a business or firm operates.
- Their corporation has been doing business under a different trade name in recent years; the terms of service say something about "Acme Incorporated dba Apex Advanced International Systems."
- 1958 January, 'Borderer', “Ten Years of British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 11:
- While British Railways has remained the official title, it is perhaps of interest that this is not a statutory body but is really only a trade-name!
Translations
[edit]name used to identify a commercial product or service
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business or firm
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See also
[edit]References
[edit]- “trade name”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.