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• trade mark, trade-mark

From trade +‎ mark.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈtɹeɪdmɑːk/
• (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈtɹeɪdmɑɹk/
• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˈtɹæɪdmɐːk/
• Rhymes: -eɪdmɑː(ɹ)k
• Hyphenation: trade‧mark

trademark (plural trademarks)

1. A word, symbol, or phrase used to identify a particular company's product and differentiate it from other companies' products.
   Antonyms: generic name; description
   Coordinate terms: brandname, brand name, service mark, tradename, trade name, wordmark
   1. Especially, such a term that is registered with a government agency so as to have legal protection against use by other companies.
2. 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.
3. The aspect for which someone or something is best known; a hallmark or typical characteristic.

• genericised trademark

• genericized trademark

• registered trademark

• trademark dilution

• trademark erosion

• trademark infringement

• trademark symbol

• trademark troll

• → Bengali: ট্রেডমার্ক (ṭreḍomark)

• → Hindi: ट्रेडमार्क (ṭreḍmārk)

identification of a company's product

• Albanian: markë tregtare f

• Arabic: عَلَامَة تِجَارِيَّة (ar) f (ʕalāma tijāriyya)

• Armenian: ապրանքային նշան (hy) (aprankʻayin nšan)

• Azerbaijani: əmtəə nişanı, ticarət nişanı

• Belarusian: тава́рны знак m (tavárny znak), гандлёвая ма́рка f (handljóvaja márka)

• Bengali: ট্রেডমার্ক (bn) (ṭreḍomark)

• Bulgarian: търго́вска ма́рка f (tǎrgóvska márka)

• Burmese: ကုန်အမှတ်တံဆိပ် (kun-a.hmattamhcip)

• Chinese:
  Cantonese: 嘜頭 / 唛头 (mak1 tau4 / mak1 tau4-2), 商標 / 商标 (soeng1 biu1)
  Hokkien: 商標 / 商标 (siong-phiau)
  Mandarin: 商標 / 商标 (zh) (shāngbiāo), 牌子 (zh) (páizi), 品牌 (zh) (pǐnpái)

• Czech: ochranná známka f

• Danish: varemærke n

• Dutch: handelsmerk (nl) n

• Estonian: kaubamärk

• Finnish: tavaramerkki (fi)

• French: marque commerciale (fr)

• Georgian: სავაჭრო ნიშანი (savač̣ro nišani)

• German: Marke (de) f, Warenzeichen n

• Greek: εμπορικό σήμα n (emporikó síma)

• Hebrew: סִימָן מִסְחָר m (simán miskhár), סִימָן מִסחָרִי (he) m (simán miskharí)

• Hindi: व्यापारचिन्ह m (vyāpārcinha), ट्रेडमार्क (hi) m (ṭreḍmārk)

• Hungarian: védjegy (hu), márkanév (hu)

• Icelandic: vörumerki n

• Ido: fabriko-marko (io)

• Indonesian: merek dagang (id)

• Irish: trádmharc m

• Italian: marchio registrato m

• Japanese: 商標 (ja) (しょうひょう, shōhyō)

• Kazakh: сауда таңбасы (sauda tañbasy), тауар таңбасы (tauar tañbasy)

• Khmer: ពាណិជ្ជសញ្ញា (piənɨc saññaa)

• Korean: 상표(商標) (ko) (sangpyo)

• Kyrgyz: товардык белги (tovardık belgi), соода белгиси (sooda belgisi)

• Lao: ເຄື່ອງໝາຍການຄ້າ (lo) (khư̄ang māi kān khā)

• Latvian: preču zīme f

• Lithuanian: prekės ženklas m

• Macedonian: заштитен знак m (zaštiten znak)

• Malay: tanda dagang

• Mongolian:
  Cyrillic: барааны тэмдэг (mn) (baraany temdeg), худалдааны тэмдэг (xudaldaany temdeg), ялгарах тэмдэг (jalgarax temdeg)

• Māori: mokopakihi

• Norwegian:
  Bokmål: varemerke n

• Persian:
  Iranian Persian: نَمَادِ بازَرْگانی (namâd-e bâzargâni), نِشانِ بازَرْگانی (nešân-e bâzargâni)

• Polish: znak towarowy m

• Portuguese: marca registrada (pt) f, marca (pt) f

• Romanian: marcă înregistrată f, marcă (ro) f

• Russian: това́рный знак (ru) m (továrnyj znak), торго́вая ма́рка (ru) f (torgóvaja márka), това́рная ма́рка f (továrnaja márka)

• Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: заштитни знак m
  Latin: zaštitni znak m

• Slovak: ochranná známka f

• Slovene: blagovna znamka f

• Spanish: marca registrada (es) f, marca (es) f

• Swedish: varumärke (sv) n

• Tagalog: tatak-kalakal

• Tajik: маркаи истеҳсолӣ (marka-yi istehsoli)

• Thai: เครื่องหมายการค้า (th) (krʉ̂ʉang-mǎai-gaan-káa)

• Turkish: tescilli marka (tr), alametifarika (tr)

• Turkmen: söwda belgisi

• Ukrainian: това́рний знак m (továrnyj znak), торго́ва ма́рка f (torhóva márka), торгове́льна ма́рка f (torhovélʹna márka)

• Urdu: نِشانِ تِجارَت m (niśān-i tijārat), تِجارَتی مارْکَہ m (tijāratī mārka), ٹْریڈ مارْک m (ṭreḍ mārk)

• Uyghur: تاۋار ماركىسى (tawar markisi)

• Uzbek: savdo belgisi

• Vietnamese: thương hiệu (vi) (商號)

• brand

• branding

• ™

• ®

trademark (third-person singular simple present trademarks, present participle trademarking, simple past and past participle trademarked)

1. (transitive, proscribed) To register something as a trademark.
2. (transitive, proscribed) To so label a product.

• 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.

to register something as a trademark

trademark (not comparable)

1. (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.
   • 2024 December 12, Eric Cortellessa, “Donald Trump 2024 TIME Person of the Year”, in Time‎[2], archived from the original on 22 December 2024:
     The world’s most powerful man entered with an air of unhurried bonhomie. Dressed in his trademark navy suit and red tie, Trump, 78, appeared a little older than he had some seven months earlier, when he last met with TIME—more subdued, less verbose, the same discursive speech patterns but with the volume turned down.

distinctive, characteristic

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