name brand

1 of 2

noun

: a product that is made by a well-known company
clothing stores that sell name brands at low prices

name-brand

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adjective

: relating to or being a product that is made by a well-known company
name-brand clothing

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Noun
However, Office Max sold only name brand backpacks with the thriftiest being JanSport, Target and Walmart sold generic label backpacks. — Sacbee.com, 5 Aug. 2026 At the end of the day, whether to buy generic or name brand is based on your personal preference and taste, and if the additional cost is justified by product taste and ingredients, says Lueke. — Bridget Shirvell, Martha Stewart, 1 Aug. 2026
Adjective
Neither Tennessee resident cops to having much interest in Nashville’s glitzy Lower Broadway district, where tourists stumble from one bar owned by a name-brand country star to another. — Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2026 Anthropic can tout its enterprise customer base, which is stickier and compounds more predictably than individual consumer subscriptions, which is where OpenAI’s ChatGPT has the name-brand recognition advantage. — Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 14 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for name brand

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“Name brand.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/name%20brand. Accessed 24 Aug. 2026.

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