short note on Brand-name

[George Thompson]

Also this sense, (from brand name product = well known product = well known
non-product):
"The company wanted a brand-name architect, so they hired . . . ."

GAT

On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 10:35 PM, Victor Steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com>wrote:

> OED for brand-name:
>
>  brand-name n. a trade or proprietary name; also /transf./
>>
>
> Unless I misunderstand the "transf." here, there is also an attributive
> sense, where "brand-name product" (with or without a hyphen) implies
> something with a recognizable mark, of well-known manufacturer/purveyor,
> non-generic. This is not quite a shade of the same meaning and deserves
> a separate note.
>
>    VS-)
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George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much since then.

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