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trademark

Syllables: trade·markUK/ˈtɹeɪdmɑːk//ˈtɹeɪdmɑɹk/

trademark noun: a word, symbol, or phrase used to identify a particular company's product and differentiate it from other companies' products.

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.

Verb

trademark (third-person singular simple present trademarks, present participle trademarking, simple past and past participle trademarked)

  1. (proscribed, transitive) To register something as a trademark.
  2. (proscribed, transitive) To so label a product.

Adjective

trademark (not comparable)

  1. (informal) Distinctive, characteristic, signature.
    • Sutho took a pull at his Johnny Walker and Coke and laughed that trademark laugh of his and said: `Okay. I'll pay that all right.'1996, Jon Byrell, Lairs, Urgers and Coat-Tuggers, Sydney: Ironbark, page 294
    • Riise did crash a fantastic, trademark free-kick against the bar from 25 yards but it was the Potters who increasingly posed the greater threat.2011 October 15, Owen Phillips, “Stoke 2 - 0 Fulham”, in BBC Sport

trademark meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

trademark in Hindi

identification of a company's product
व्यापारचिन्ह vyāpārcinha, ट्रेडमार्क ṭreḍmārk

trademark in Tamil

வணிகக் குறியீடு

trademark in Marathi

ट्रेडमार्क, व्यापारचिन्ह, व्यापारमुद्रण

trademark in Urdu

identification of a company's product
نِشانِ تِجارَت niśān-i tijārat, تِجارَتی مارْکَہ tijāratī mārka, ٹْریڈ مارْک ṭreḍ mārk
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trademark in Bengali
ট্রেডমার্ক ṭreḍomark
trademark in Telugu
ట్రేడ్మార్క్, వ్యాపారచిహ్నం, ట్రేడ్ మార్క్
trademark in Malayalam
ട്രേഡ്മാർക്ക്, കച്ചവടഅടയാളം, ചരക്കടയാളം, തനതുത്പന്നമുദ്ര
trademark in Kannada
ವ್ಯಾಪಾರ ಚಿಹ್ನೆ
trademark in Punjabi
ਟ੍ਰੇਡਮਾਰਕ, ਟ੍ਰੇਡਮਾਰਕੀ, ਟ੍ਰੇਡਮਾਰਕ ਕਰਨ ਲਈ
trademark in Gujarati
ટ્રેડમાર્ક, વ્યાપારચિહ્નરૂપ
trademark in Odia
ଟ୍ରେଡମାର୍କ, ଟ୍ରେଡ୍ ମାର୍କ, ଟ୍ରେଡ୍ମାର୍କ
trademark in Nepali
ट्रेडमार्क
trademark in Tagalog
tatak-kalakal
trademark in Arabic
عَلَامَة تِجَارِيَّة ʕalāma tijāriyya
trademark in Malay
tanda dagang
trademark in Indonesian
merek dagang
trademark in Thai
เครื่องหมายการค้า krʉ̂ʉang-mǎai-gaan-káa, ที่เป็นเอกลักษณ์ tîi-bpen-èek-gà-lák
trademark in Vietnamese
thương hiệu
trademark in Myanmar
ကုန်အမှတ်တံဆိပ် kun-a.hmattamhcip

Examples of trademark in a sentence

  • "Superhealth Yogurt" would be a misdescriptive trademark for a yogurt that was very high in fat.
  • Their trademarked financial structure involved issuing several kinds of zero coupons.
  • Copyright is a separate legal area from trademarks.

All 40 example sentences with trademark

Antonyms of trademark

Forms of trademark

Noun
pluraltrademarks
alternative formtrade mark
alternative formtrade-mark
Verb
third-person singular presenttrademarks
present participletrademarking
past participletrademarked
pasttrademarked

Plural of trademark: trademarks

Origin of trademark

From trade + mark.

Words formed from trademark

Phrases with trademark

Words that rhyme with trademark

Questions about trademark

What does trademark mean?
Trademark means a word, symbol, or phrase used to identify a particular company's product and differentiate it from other companies' products.
What is trademark in Hindi?
Trademark in Hindi is व्यापारचिन्ह (vyāpārcinha), ट्रेडमार्क (ṭreḍmārk). See Trademark meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is trademark?
Trademark can be a noun, a verb or an adjective.
How do you pronounce trademark?
Trademark is pronounced /ˈtɹeɪdmɑːk/ (UK).
What is the plural of trademark?
The plural of trademark is trademarks.

Words near trademark in the dictionary

  1. tradefallen
  2. tradeful
  3. tradeless
  4. tradeline
  5. tradelines
  6. trademark
  7. trademark dilution
  8. trademark erosion
  9. trademark erosions
  10. trademark infringement
  11. trademark symbol

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: trademark (page history and authors); trademark (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); trademark (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); trademark (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); trademark (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); trademark (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); trademark (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); trademark (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); trademark (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); trademark (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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