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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A name under which a product or service is marketed or under which a business operates.
 - noun A trademark.
 
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name invented or adopted as the specific name or designation of some article of commerce.
 
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- The name by which an article is called among traders, etc..
 - An invented or arbitrary adopted name given by a manufacturer or merchant to an article to distinguish it as produced or sold by him.
 - The name or style under which a concern or firm does business. This name becomes a part of the good will of a business; it is not protected by the registration acts, but a qualified common-law protection against its misuse exists, analogous to that existing in the case of trade-marks.
 
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun   A name used to identify a 
commercial product orservice ; may or may not beregistered as atrademark . - noun   The name under which a 
business orfirm operates . 
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a name given to a product or service
 
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hernesheir commented on the word trade name
(n): A name used to identify a commercial product or service; may or may not be registered as a trademark; The name under which a business or firm operates.
January 11, 2009