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white label

white label adjective: being a generically manufactured product, rebranded with the marketer's or retailer's trade dress: synonym of private label.

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Adjective

white label (not comparable)

  1. Being a generically manufactured product, rebranded with the marketer's or retailer's trade dress: synonym of private label.
  2. Unbranded; being a brand name product which has had a white label applied to remove branding so that it can be resold for cheaper without undercutting the value of the brand.
  3. Being a vinyl record with a white label or white background (rather than artwork), typically used for test records or promotion.
    • I started going to the record exchange in Camden two or three times a week to look for the Rephlex white labels or test pressings that would end up there. I actually got one of the original Caustic Window vinyl LPs from there.2014, Chris Cunningham, quoted in Piers Martin, Aphex Twin: ‘His music is a perfect mix of mystery and adrenaline’ (in The Guardian)...

Forms of white label

alternative formwhite-label

Origin of white label

US, 20th century. Originally used for musical vinyl records whose labels had been torn off or covered with a white label by competing DJs to conceal which records they were using.

Questions about white label

What does white label mean?
White label means being a generically manufactured product, rebranded with the marketer's or retailer's trade dress: synonym of private label.
What part of speech is white label?
White label is an adjective.

Words near white label in the dictionary

  1. white knights
  2. white knuckle
  3. white knuckle ride
  4. white knuckle rides
  5. White Kulaman
  6. white label
  7. white ladies
  8. White Ladies Aston
  9. white lady
  10. white lady tears
  11. white land

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