Branding

Quick meaning: Branding is a noun meaning The promotion of a commercial brand of product or service in order to give it greater public awareness.

Meaning

The promotion of a commercial brand of product or service in order to give it greater public awareness.

More Meanings

1. The trade dress thus presented (trademarks, wordmarks, colorways, liveries, and so on).
2. present participle and gerund of brand
3. The process in which a mark, usually a symbol or ornamental pattern, is burned into the skin of a living animal or person (usually a livestock animal).

Example Sentences

Near-synonym: labeling

Near-synonyms: marketing, promotion

Punishment for theft was inflicted, either by fine, imprisonment, or hard labour, or by branding.

Tattoos, in particular, are not the radical brandings, the bold violations of flesh and propriety, they once were.

Word Forms

• brandings

Synonyms for branding

Depending on context, synonyms include marketing, promotion, labeling, stigmatization, stigmatisation.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include stigmatisation, stigmatization, markings, picture, mark, stamping.

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