geographical indication

1. 1.

   (law) a name or sign used on certain products which corresponds to a specific geographical location or origin

   SynonymsGI

   Broadername

   Narrowerappellation

   law

Questions about geographical indication

What does geographical indication mean?

geographical indication means "(law) a name or sign used on certain products which corresponds to a specific geographical location or origin".

What is another word for geographical indication?

Close synonyms include GI. 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 geographical indication a common word?

geographical indication 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.