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trade-mark

trade-mark is the alternative form of trademark.

Meaning of trademark

Noun

trademark (plural trademarks)

  1. A word, symbol, or phrase used to identify a particular company's product and differentiate it from other companies' products.
    1. Especially, such a term that is registered with a government agency so as to have legal protection against use by other companies.
  2. Any proprietary business, product or service name.
    • Trademark Notice / The following are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies: […] Google is a trademark of Google Corporation; eBay is a trademark of eBay, Inc.2005, Kai A. Olsen, The Internet, the Web, and eBusiness, page xv
  3. The aspect for which someone or something is best known; a hallmark or typical characteristic.

See all 7 meanings of trademark

Forms of trade-mark

Noun
pluraltrade-marks
Verb
third-person singular presenttrade-marks
present participletrade-marking
past participletrade-marked
pasttrade-marked

Questions about trade-mark

What is trade-mark the alternative form of?
Trade-mark is the alternative form of trademark.

Words near trade-mark in the dictionary

  1. trade worker
  2. trade-in
  3. trade-ins
  4. trade-last
  5. trade-lasts
  6. trade-mark
  7. trade-marked
  8. trade-marking
  9. trade-marks
  10. trade-off
  11. trade-offs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: trade-mark (page history and authors); trademark (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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