doing business as

1. 1.

   (law) a name under which a corporation conducts business that is not the legal name of the corporation as shown in its articles of incorporation

   Synonymsassumed namefictitious nameDBA

   Broadername

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Questions about doing business as

What does doing business as mean?

doing business as means "(law) a name under which a corporation conducts business that is not the legal name of the corporation as shown in its articles of incorporation".

What is another word for doing business as?

Close synonyms include assumed name, fictitious name, DBA. 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.

Is doing business as a common word?

doing business as is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.