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: of or relating to a brand name
brand-name products
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: 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
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: 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.
Recent Examples on the WebEd Silverman, STAT, 11 Apr. 2024
Among the accomplishments highlighted by Biden and Sanders were the Inflation Reduction Act provisions capping insulin costs at $35 for Medicare patients and out-of-pocket spending on brand-name drugs for Medicare beneficiaries to $2,000 yearly.
—Alexandra Hutzler, ABC News, 3 Apr. 2024
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Adjective
This refers to the period of time in which a generic company cannot use study data generated by brand-name manufacturers to win regulatory approval to sell a medicine.
—Ed Silverman, STAT, 11 Apr. 2024
Among the accomplishments highlighted by Biden and Sanders were the Inflation Reduction Act provisions capping insulin costs at $35 for Medicare patients and out-of-pocket spending on brand-name drugs for Medicare beneficiaries to $2,000 yearly.
—Alexandra Hutzler, ABC News, 3 Apr. 2024
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“Brand-name.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/brand-name. Accessed 4 May. 2024.
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