1
: of or relating to a brand name
brand-name products
2
: having a well-known and usually highly regarded or marketable name
brand-name authors
the … party lacks brand-name guests or good food—
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: an arbitrarily adopted name that is given by a manufacturer or merchant to an article or service to distinguish it as produced or sold by that manufacturer or merchant and that may be used and protected as a trademark
2
: one having a well-known and usually highly regarded or marketable name
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Noun
The drug is sold under several brand names.
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Arthur L. Kellermann, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
To be fair, very few of these performers are genuine 1970s cinema icons, not to mention the brand-name embodiment of a whole genre.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 20 Mar. 2025
Kenneth Squire, CNBC, 22 Mar. 2025
Besides lorazepam, which is marketed under the brand name Ativan, other common benzodiazepines include Valium (diazepam), Klonopin (clonazepam), and Xanax (alprazolam).
—Emily Kay Votruba, EverydayHealth.com, 19 Mar. 2025
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Adjective
Patients Are Worried While the FDA focus is on availability, Americans are far more worried about the cost of brand-name GLP-1 drugs.
—Arthur L. Kellermann, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
To be fair, very few of these performers are genuine 1970s cinema icons, not to mention the brand-name embodiment of a whole genre.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 20 Mar. 2025
Noun
Its resorts operate primarily under the Caesars, Harrah’s, Horseshoe and Eldorado brand names.
—Kenneth Squire, CNBC, 22 Mar. 2025
Besides lorazepam, which is marketed under the brand name Ativan, other common benzodiazepines include Valium (diazepam), Klonopin (clonazepam), and Xanax (alprazolam).
—Emily Kay Votruba, EverydayHealth.com, 19 Mar. 2025
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“Brand-name.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/brand-name. Accessed 31 Mar. 2025.
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