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assumed name
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun assumed name has 2 senses
- assumed name(n = noun.communication) alias, false name - a name that has been assumed temporarily; Array is a kind of name
- assumed name(n = noun.communication) dba, doing business as, fictitious name - (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; Array is a kind of name
ROGET THESAURUS
assumed name
Misnomer
N misnomer, lucus a non lucendo, Mrs, Malaprop, what d'ye call 'em, Hoosier, nickname, sobriquet, by-name, assumed name, assumed title, alias, nom de course, nom de theatre, nom de guerre, nom de plume, pseudonym, pseudonymy, misnamed, pseudonymous, soi-disant, self called, self styled, self christened, so-called, nameless, anonymous, without a having no name, innominate, unnamed, unacknowledged, in no sense.
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