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nameplate

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
In American usage, a publication's nameplate is a publication's designed title as it appears on the front page or cover. In the United Kingdom and many other Commonwealth nations, it is known as masthead . In American usage, the term masthead refers to ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A plate or plaque inscribed with a person's name, especially one on an office door. 2 The masthead of a newspaper.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Companies pay many hundred francs just for a nameplate . ▪ If they want to make nameplates for their stuffed animals, we can find them wooden plaques. ▪ Straus nameplate and laying off 650 employees in the process. ▪ The nameplate ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1882, from name (n.) + plate (n.).

Usage examples of nameplate.

Wanda Reidel and six arrived soon after, carried by a white-coated counterboy with a nameplate.

By a doorway beside a Greek restaurant, his nameplate is sandwiched between that of a Cypriot travel agent and a fancy goods importer.

He had no idea where he could find a doctor, and he peered hopelessly at all the signs and nameplates he saw.

You don't need an isolation booth with your nameplate on the door.

Down the corridor of Daisy wing he shuffles, across the empty lobby, and up to the burnished door further distinguished by the brass nameplate reading WILLIAM MAXTON, DIRECTOR.

There were two rows of conference tables down the middle of the room, with nameplates for the representatives on one side, and for the testifiers on the other.

A worn spot near the head indicated where a nameplate or some other form of identification had been torn off long ago.