1. (a) The name by which an article is called among traders, etc.; as, tin spirits is a common trade name in the dyeing industry for various solutions of tin salts. (b) An invented or arbitrary adopted name given by a manufacturer or merchant to an article to distinguish it as produced or sold by him.
2. The name or style under which a concern or firm does business. This name becomes a part of the good will of a business; it is not protected by the registration acts, but a qualified common-law protection against its misuse exists, analogous to that existing in the case of trade-marks.
TRADER
Trad"er, n.
1. One engaged in trade or commerce; one who makes a business of buying and selling or of barter; a merchant; a trafficker; as, a trader to the East Indies; a country trader.
2. A vessel engaged in the coasting or foreign trade.
TRADESCANTIA
Trad`es*can"ti*a, n. (Bot.)
Defn: A genus including spiderwort and Wandering Jew.
TRADESFOLK
Trades"folk`, n.
Defn: People employed in trade; tradesmen. [R.] Swift.
TRADESMAN
Trades"man, n.; pl. Tradesmen (.