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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On Wednesday, Dollar Tree said that it would record a $950 million impairment against the trade name Family Dollar, on top of a $1.07 billion goodwill charge.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 13, 2024
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 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
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
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
The son of John William-son would be Henry John-son, or Henry Alice-son; he might or might not retain the personal name, or the trade-name; but the place-name he probably would inherit.
From One Snowy Night Long ago at Oxford by Irwin, M. (Madelaine)
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
They gave it an orangeade taste, trade-named it Questran.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
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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