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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
nameplate
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 on his desk said, informally, that his name was Ricky Bell.
▪ The nameplate, carrying the paper's title and emblem, will be unveiled by the editor, Magnus Linklater.
▪ With regards to John's regular locomotive, the nameplates are of special interest.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
nameplate

1882, from name (n.) + plate (n.).

Wiktionary
nameplate

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

WordNet
nameplate

n. a plate bearing a name

Wikipedia
Nameplate

A nameplate identifies and displays a person or product's name. Nameplates are usually shaped as rectangles but are also seen in other shapes, sometimes taking on the shape of someone’s name. The primary use of nameplates is for informative (as in an office environment, where nameplates are mounted on doors or walls in order to identify employees) and commercial purposes (as in a retail environment, where nameplates are mounted on products to identify the brand). Whereas name tags tend to be worn on uniforms or clothing, nameplates tend to be mounted onto an object (e.g. cars, amplification devices) or physical space (e.g. doors, walls, or desktops). Nameplates are also distinct from name plaques. Plaques are items of larger dimensions that are designed to communicate more information than a name and title.

Nameplate (publishing)

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 a printed list, published in a fixed position in each edition, of its owners, departments, officers and address details, which in British English usage is known as imprint.

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.