branding

noun

brand·​ing ˈbran-diŋ How to pronounce branding (audio)
: the promoting of a product or service by identifying it with a particular brand

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This may seem like a peculiar question – not least in the context of personal branding. Pia Lauritzen, Forbes.com, 12 June 2025 The city’s new branding will launch at home and abroad as summer ushers in Chicago’s busiest tourist season. Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune, 12 June 2025 Randy Reyes indicated that expansion of the city’s corporate sponsorship program could be the best avenue, highlighting a current project in which automaker Toyota exclusively provides all lifeguard vehicles for marketing and branding privileges. Steven Mihailovich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 June 2025 Each track has a manufacturer alliance, like a pace car branding, all that stuff. Saajan Jogia, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for branding

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First Known Use

1913, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of branding was in 1913

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“Branding.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/branding. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.

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