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tradename

tradename is the alternative spelling of trade name.

Meaning of trade name

Noun

trade name (plural trade names)

  1. A name used to identify a commercial product or service; may or may not be a registered trademark.
    • Near-synonyms: brandname, brand name, trademark
    1. The company-specific name for a drug (medication), in contrast with a nonproprietary name such as an INN (international nonproprietary name), USAN (United States adopted name), JAN (Japanese accepted name), and so on.
      • Patients who come to the pharmacy counter may remember the trade name of their prescription but not the nonproprietary name, or vice versa.
  2. The name under which a business or firm operates.
    • Their corporation has been doing business under a different trade name in recent years; the terms of service say something about "Acme Incorporated dba Apex Advanced International Systems."

Forms of tradename

pluraltradenames

Origin of tradename

From trade + name.

Questions about tradename

What is tradename the alternative spelling of?
Tradename is the alternative spelling of trade name.

Words near tradename in the dictionary

  1. trademarkers
  2. trademarking
  3. trademarks
  4. trademaster
  5. trademasters
  6. tradename
  7. tradenames
  8. tradent
  9. tradeoff
  10. tradeoffs
  11. tradepost

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tradename (page history and authors); trade name (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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