trade name

¹

noun

1. the name used by a manufacturer, merchant, service company, farming business, etc., to identify itself individually as a business.

2. 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.

3. the name by which an article or substance is known to the trade.

trade-name

²

[treyd-neym]

verb (used with object)

trade-named, trade-naming 

1. to designate with or register under a trade name.

trade name

noun

1. the name used by a trade to refer to a commodity, service, etc

2. the name under which a commercial enterprise operates in business

Word History and Origins

Origin of trade name¹

First recorded in 1860–65

Origin of trade name²

First recorded in 1860–65