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.
the name used by a trade to refer to a commodity, service, etc
the name under which a commercial enterprise operates in business
First recorded in 1860–65
First recorded in 1860–65
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Rodgers, who was once a missionary in Singapore, quietly created City Elders in Oklahoma in 2017, established “City Elders” as a trade name of his Gateway Ministries in June 2018, and launched publicly in 2019.
From Salon ● Nov. 12, 2023
The injections will be 10-microgram doses of Pfizer-BioNTech's vaccine which is now marketed with the trade name, Comirnaty.
From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2022
A key milestone in changing the medical community’s opinion of cannabis therapy occurred when the first whole plant cannabis-based prescription medicine, trade name Epidiolex, was approved by the U.S.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 4, 2021
Agricultural chemical company Monsanto had engineered corn and soy plants with a gene that allowed them to survive exposure to the herbicide glyphosate, better known by its trade name, Roundup.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 2, 2020
The trade name of the mattress was on a little card at the foot of the bed.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
This is the current statutory landscape for iPhones, games consoles and many other devices that are larded with digital locks, often known by the trade-name “DRM”.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 23, 2015
News despatches do not make it clear whether the machine in question is sold under the trade-name of Ford or not.
From Time Magazine Archive
She objected to the tobacco trade-name "Bull Durham" because bulls were manifestly no tobacco users.
From Time Magazine Archive
NBC also admitted that it had tried with little success "to cut down on the number of trade-name references" used by Hope.
From Time Magazine Archive
Two important proteins were present in this food: plasmon, a trade-name for casein, the chief protein of milk, and gluten, a mixture of proteins in flour.
From The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 by Mawson, Douglas, Sir
To create the catgut substitute, which is trade-named Dexon, chemists tested 225 synthetic compounds before they hit upon polyglycolic acid, a polymer or long-chain molecule that is chemically compatible with the human body.
From Time Magazine Archive
An affiliate of the Schering Corp. was pushing another anti-histaminic under the name Inhiston, and more trade-named cold pills were due any day.
From Time Magazine Archive
Procter & Gamble, which has trade-named its fake fat Olean, was jubilant.
From Time Magazine Archive
The most effective columbifuge so far seems to be a gooey chemical trade-named Roost-No-More, which is smeared on the cornices of buildings.
From Time Magazine Archive
Dr. Cameron gave the pills, trade-named Cylert by North Chicago's Abbott Laboratories, as tough a test as he could devise.
From Time Magazine Archive
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