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
Examples of brand-name in a Sentence
Noun
The drug is sold under several brand names.
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Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Feb. 2025
The big picture: The store offers a brand-name addition to downtown's ever-cycling retail scene, which includes national retailers like H&M, Nike, Gucci and Savage X Fenty.
—Annalise Frank, Axios, 5 Feb. 2025
Vanessa Etienne, People.com, 30 Jan. 2025
On its inaugural flight, the Pilgrim didn’t carry a brand name.
—April White, JSTOR Daily, 20 Jan. 2025
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Adjective
The 520,000-square-foot campus was fully pre-leased to brand-name tenants, including Pfizer and Becton, Dickinson and Co.
—Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Feb. 2025
The big picture: The store offers a brand-name addition to downtown's ever-cycling retail scene, which includes national retailers like H&M, Nike, Gucci and Savage X Fenty.
—Annalise Frank, Axios, 5 Feb. 2025
Noun
The medication — taken weekly by injection in the thigh, stomach or arm — is a brand name for semaglutide, which works in the brain to impact satiety.
—Vanessa Etienne, People.com, 30 Jan. 2025
On its inaugural flight, the Pilgrim didn’t carry a brand name.
—April White, JSTOR Daily, 20 Jan. 2025
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“Brand-name.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/brand-name. Accessed 11 Feb. 2025.
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