private label

noun

: a label associated with a specific chain store
also : a brand or product having a private label
usually hyphenated when used attributively
private-label clothes

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For the first time ever, ALDI is rebranding its private label products, giving shoppers another reason to reach for its products. Melinda Salchert, Southern Living, 24 Sep. 2025 When Golf Galaxy was acquired by Dick’s Sporting Goods in 2007, Walter Hagen joined as Dick’s Sporting Goods’ first vertical/private label brand. Michael Loré, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025 Adeela Hussain Johnson, as a co-founder, and used Brice’s connections making private label makeup bags and other accessories to get a line of duffles, backpacks, passport holders and other travel essentials into production. Natalie Jarvey, Fortune, 1 Sep. 2025 After starting a distillery just four years ago, Jackson Purchase Distillery is launching its first private label bourbon. Olivia Evans, The Courier-Journal, 22 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for private label

Word History

First Known Use

1950, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of private label was in 1950

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“Private label.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/private%20label. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.

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