query | A b____ of a product is the version of it that is made by one particular manufacturer .A brand of a product is the version of it that is made by one particular manufacturer . This is my favourite brand of shampoo. I bought one of the leading brands. ...a supermarket's own brand. |
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word | brand |
full-definition | noun A brand of a product is the version of it that is made by one particular manufacturer . This is my favourite brand of shampoo. I bought one of the leading brands. ...a supermarket's own brand. A brand of something such as a way of thinking or behaving is a particular kind of it. The British brand of socialism was more interested in reform than revolution. verb If someone is branded as something bad, people think they are that thing. I was instantly branded as a rebel. The company has been branded racist by some of its own staff. The U.S. administration recently branded him a war criminal. When you brand an animal, you put a permanent mark on its skin in order to show who it belongs to, usually by burning a mark onto its skin. The owner couldn't be bothered to brand the cattle. A brand was a mark of ownership burned into the hide of an animal with a hot iron. |
inflections | brandsbrandingbranded |
cefr-level | B1 |
Tags: oxford5k::cefr-level:b1
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