brand-name drug

1. 1.

   a drug that has a trade name and is protected by a patent (can be produced and sold only by the company holding the patent)

   Synonymsproprietary drug

   Antonymsgeneric drug

   Broaderdrug

Questions about brand-name drug

What does brand-name drug mean?

brand-name drug means "a drug that has a trade name and is protected by a patent (can be produced and sold only by the company holding the patent)".

What is another word for brand-name drug?

Close synonyms include proprietary drug. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.