trade mark

A form of trademark — A word, symbol, or phrase used to identify a particular company's product and differentiate it from other companies' products.

Meanings

nountrade mark (plural trade marks)

plural trade marks

  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of trademark.
adjectivetrade mark (not comparable)
  1. alternativenot comparableAlternative spelling of trademark.

    Jimmy Page lacked the floppy hat and beard, but the guitar still maintained his trade mark industrial resonance.

    1998 November 6, Magnus Mills, “When dinosaurs rocked the earth”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Jul 2022
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    Barcelona were celebrating winning the league title, with fireworks, spotlights, open-topped buses, and a million people in the street; with Ronaldinho wearing a comedy oversized rubber hand fashioned into his trade mark thumb-and-little-finger wiggle (he may also have been wearing a comedy mask; it's hard to tell); […]

    2005 May 17, Sid Lowe, “There once was an ugly duckling”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Sep 2014

    [Jason] Spezza couldn’t suppress his trade mark giggle while talking about Phillips, the quintessential stay-at-home defenceman who scored a goal about every 17 games in his career.

    2020 February 18, Chris Stevenson, “Senators retire No. 4: ‘What made Chris [Phillips] was not just the player, but the person he was’”, in The Athletic, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Sep 2025
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APA

trade mark. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/trade%20mark

MLA

“trade mark.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/trade%20mark. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “trade mark,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/trade%20mark.

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