trademark
See also: trade mark
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /ˈtɹeɪdmɑː(ɹ)k/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -eɪdmɑː(ɹ)k
- Hyphenation: trade‧mark
Noun edit
trademark (plural trademarks)
- A word, symbol, or phrase used to identify a particular company's product and differentiate it from other companies' products.
- Any proprietary business, product or service name.
- 2005, Kai A. Olsen, The Internet, the Web, and eBusiness, page xv:
- 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.
- The aspect for which someone or something is best known; a hallmark or typical characteristic.
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Bengali: ট্রেডমার্ক (ṭreḍomark)
- → Hindi: ट्रेडमार्क (ṭreḍmārk)
Translations edit
identification of a company's product
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See also edit
Verb edit
trademark (third-person singular simple present trademarks, present participle trademarking, simple past and past participle trademarked)
- (proscribed) To register something as a trademark.
- (proscribed) To so label a product.
Usage notes edit
- Among practitioners of trademark law, it is generally considered incorrect to use “trademark” as a verb; the preferred terminology would be to use a trademark or to register a trademark.
Adjective edit
trademark (not comparable)
- (informal) Distinctive, characteristic, signature.
- 1996, Jon Byrell, Lairs, Urgers and Coat-Tuggers, Sydney: Ironbark, page 294:
- 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.'
- 2011 October 15, Owen Phillips, “Stoke 2 - 0 Fulham”, in BBC Sport[1]:
- 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.
Translations edit
distinctive, characteristic
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