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on-brand

on-brand adjective: serving the public image which a company seeks to associate with its product.

Adjective

on-brand (comparative more on-brand, superlative most on-brand)

  1. Serving the public image which a company seeks to associate with its product.
    • The use of red and yellow is very on-brand for McDonald's.
    • "The Zipcar Low-Car Diet, a very on-brand promotion that gets people to blog about giving up their cars, fits the lifestyle."2010 December 15, David A. Aaker, Brand Relevance: Making Competitors Irrelevant, John Wiley & Sons
    Antonyms:
    off-brand
  2. (idiomatic) Consistent with one's reputation, perhaps to a stereotypical degree.
    • A Canadian who loves hockey? I guess that's pretty on-brand.
    • "The attack was on-brand for Trump, who has a well-earned reputation as a counterpuncher when criticized."2019 October 29, Morgan Chalfant, Brett Samuels, “Trump attacks on Vindman trigger backlash”, in The Hill
    Antonyms:
    off-brand

Antonyms of on-brand

Forms of on-brand

comparativemore on-brand
superlativemost on-brand

Questions about on-brand

What does on-brand mean?
On-brand means serving the public image which a company seeks to associate with its product.
What part of speech is on-brand?
On-brand is an adjective.

Words near on-brand in the dictionary

  1. on-base percentage
  2. on-base percentages
  3. on-base plus slugging
  4. on-beam
  5. on-board
  6. on-brand
  7. on-call
  8. on-camera
  9. on-campus
  10. on-chain
  11. on-demand

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