name-brand

[neym-brand]

adjective

1. brand-name.

noun

1. brand name.

Word History and Origins

Origin of name-brand¹

First recorded in 1940–45

Example Sentences

Covered California serves as a marketplace exchange for state residents seeking healthcare insurance under the Affordable Care Act, widely known as Obamacare, allowing them to select from name-brand insurance providers and choose from a variety of coverage plans.

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On the grandest stage, they simply couldn’t overcome their richer, name-brand foes, always in need of one or two more good players that they couldn’t afford on their shoestring budget.

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Trade Representative Jamieson Greer suggested at the Economic Club of New York that the administration could add tariffs on generic drugs as well as name-brand medicines.

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The hardest part, consultants say, is ridding parents of the notion they must get their kid into a “name-brand” school.

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It’s true you will find $24,000 Eames lounge chairs at Los Angeles vintage stores, but it’s also possible to score name-brand furnishings for a lot less at local thrift stores.

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