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 new ordinance bans the distribution and sale of expanded polystyrene products, which are often colloquially referred to by the trade name Styrofoam.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2023
The full data from the trial of Wegovy — a trade name for the drug semaglutide — have not yet been made public.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 14, 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
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
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
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
Note: The trade-name items mentioned in this article may be obtained from any reliable nursery supply house.
From Northern Nut Growers Association Thirty-Fourth Annual Report 1943 by Northern Nut Growers Association
Developed by two Winthrop chemists, Dr. Sydney Archer and Dr. Noel Albertson, the drug has the chemical name pentazocine and is trade-named Talwin.
From Time Magazine Archive
Merck settled for selling its product, trade-named Cuemid, as a rem edy for the intolerable itching that often goes with jaundice.
From Time Magazine Archive
They gave it an orangeade taste, trade-named it Questran.
From Time Magazine Archive
Dr. Martin, a family physician, told the American Academy of General Practice what he has found works best: a daily dose of three or four tablets of methylphenidate, trade-named Ritalin by the Ciba Pharmaceutical Co.
From Time Magazine Archive
Abplanalp showed off another invention that he claims to have worked out in six months of scrawling on notepads: a valve trade-named Aquasol that uses a mixture of water and butane gas as a propellant.
From Time Magazine Archive
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