Trade Markとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• trade mark, trade-mark

語源

From trade +‎ mark.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈtɹeɪdmɑːk/
• (General American, Canada) IPA: /ˈtɹeɪdmɑɹk/
• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA: /ˈtɹæɪdmɐːk/
• 韻: -eɪdmɑː(ɹ)k
• ハイフネーション: trade‧mark

名詞

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.

派生語

派生した語

• → Bengali: ট্রেডমার্ক (ṭreḍomark)
• → Hindi: ट्रेडमार्क (ṭreḍmārk)

参考

• brand
• branding
• ™
• ®

動詞

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.

使用する際の注意点

• 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.

形容詞

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:

     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, 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.

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