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trade name
1noun
- the name used by a manufacturer, merchant, service company, farming business, etc., to identify itself individually as a business.
- a word or phrase used in a trade to designate a business, service, or a particular class of goods, but that is not technically a trademark, either because it is not susceptible of exclusive appropriation as a trademark or because it is not affixed to goods sold in the market.
- the name by which an article or substance is known to the trade.
trade-name
2[ treyd-neym ]
verb (used with object)
- to designate with or register under a trade name.
trade name
noun
- the name used by a trade to refer to a commodity, service, etc
- the name under which a commercial enterprise operates in business
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Example Sentences
Each cachet contained three decigrams of malourea, the insidious drug notorious under its trade name of Veronal.
It is evident, therefore, that Hydronaphthol is merely a trade-name for betanaphthol.
Therefore, the trade name and the price are two of the principal ways in which the quality of eggs in the market may be judged.
This is one of the species of sponges of the third commercial grade, which bear the trade-name of "grass-sponge."
They all say, 'Write to Professor Certain'—the trade name, you know.
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