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Definition of generic in English: genericadjective dʒɪˈnɛrɪkdʒəˈnɛrɪk 1Characteristic of or relating to a class or group of things; not specific. chèvre is a generic term for all goat's milk cheese Example sentencesExamples - Equally though, it can be based on a template or a model that is more generic in nature.
- As long as an applicant achieved the requisite points on the generic characteristics cited above he or she would gain selection.
- Look through the pictures and pigeonhole each one into a generic class.
- It is written in broad and generic terms and, as a result, remains relatively unchanged for three to five years.
- The inclusion of context specific as well as generic aspects of methodological quality is sometimes sensible.
- Again, it's a pretty generic story, but it's consistently watchable.
- One final point of emphasis: this evaluation should be done in terms of generic deployments, not specific ones.
- The interiors are neither universal nor generic but specific, tailored, and unpredictable.
- Although that premise is fairly generic, it still hits a few good notes.
- Carrying out similar duties each day at work makes the tasks generic, which interferes with your ability to recall.
- "If I had a more generic name, I'd sign petitions with impunity, " he said.
- The point I make here is that " architect " is a generic term.
- A lot of courses that I would be interested in aren't available in the summer, so I'm stuck with generic classes.
- Initially he would have sort of linked the two together as generic processes of defence.
- Trademarks must be enforced or they risk becoming generic, and not protected.
- Once a trademark has become generic, it must remain available for all to use.
- Lurking inside that generic category was a simple set of steps that is the essence of design.
- This makes it relatively difficult to relate to the characters despite the universally generic themes of this genre.
- In truth, it's fairly generic for this sort of thing.
- However, the law has historically held that generic terms cannot be trademarks.
Synonyms general, common, collective, non-specific, inclusive, all-inclusive, all-encompassing, broad, comprehensive, blanket, umbrella, sweeping, universal, cross-disciplinary, interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary - 1.1 (of goods, especially medicinal drugs) having no brand name; not protected by a registered trademark.
Example sentencesExamples - His proposed amendment to protect cheaper, generic drugs has turned a big issue into a small one.
- Often doctors and patients don't trust generic medications, preferring the brand name drugs.
- This ignores the fact that these generic drugs are only better value if they are safe and effective.
- The deal allows countries unable to manufacture medicines domestically to override international patents and import cheap generic drugs when they need to.
- Another big challenge was to make sure that the quality of generic drugs matched that of branded medicines.
- It is a generic drug, and it's a very good prophylactic medicine.
- The generic manufacturers are simply leaches - hugely profitable ones - on that investment.
- But are all generic drugs truly equal to their brand name counterparts?
- He would like to see generic drugs - cheap copies of expensive medicines - made available.
- Like other big-name pharmaceutical companies, the company's profit margins are being pressured by generic drugmakers.
- This handy reference includes a combination of more than 300 most commonly used brand names and generic drug names.
- Hence, if there are more patented medicines, there will be more generic medicines also.
- Lumping brand-name and generic drugs together, drug prices rose 4 percent last year.
- Generic drugmakers have raced to copy the drugs more cheaply, especially in Brazil and India.
- Very few countries had fully integrated brand name or generic drug industries within their borders.
- The Ethiopian Government says it's encouraging local manufacturers to produce cheap generic AIDS drugs.
- There has been considerable talk about the threat of competition from the smaller biotechnology outfits and generic drugmakers.
- Aspirin and blockers are cheap generic drugs, but most thrombolytic agents are not.
- In principle this meant developing countries should have the right to have access to cheap generic drugs.
- What this meant was that pharmacists could substitute a generic drug for a brand name.
Synonyms unbranded, untrademarked, non-proprietary - 1.2derogatory Lacking imagination or individuality; predictable and unoriginal.
generic dance-floor fillers the plot of the film isn't just generic, it's insultingly stupid Example sentencesExamples - The arrangements and production are totally generic.
- The story is pretty generic and the action scenes vary in quality, some were crisp and exiting, others were muddled, digitally-enhanced blurs.
- Unlike in many anime series, these characters don't feel generic or cut from the same overused cloth.
- Silence is the rule for our heroes, and that means a bit of extra claustrophobia to scenes that would otherwise be totally generic.
- The plotline is exactly what it needs to be and not a single word of dialogue is ever wasted, so even though the story and setting is totally generic on one front, it never actually becomes tedious or boring.
- The music throughout is nonvocal, so there's little distraction, and is fairly generic dance-style music that most viewers should find inoffensive.
- Bad actors play characters made up of tired clichés, stumbling through generic dialogue.
- We love it when dull generic thrillers get given vaguely technological titles to try and make them sound more interesting and get it wrong.
- Musically, they are actually fairly good, in a generic sort of way.
- The plot of the film isn't just generic, it's insultingly stupid.
2Biology
Relating to a genus. Example sentencesExamples - They reported not only interlocked branches but also fused branches in a generic and species level taxa.
- Most of his Famennian species are probably valid taxa, but their generic assignments need to be re-evaluated.
- He thought that most of the future work of the committee would be at the level about the species, at the generic and subgeneric levels.
- Thus, each new imitator brings its own unique traits to the generic family.
- Sprinkleocystis ektopios is monotypic therefore generic and species diagnoses are redundant.
noun dʒɪˈnɛrɪkdʒəˈnɛrɪk A consumer product having no brand name or registered trademark. substituting generics for brand-name drugs Example sentencesExamples - Many, it contends, are little more than dubious efforts by brand-name companies looking to prevent competition from generics.
- But should they forgo profits in order to develop the Brazilian generics industry?
- The drug companies do take advantage of these things to forestall cheaper generics.
- The generics can produce a price decrease of 30 per cent.
- But donations of branded drugs actually cost donor countries four times more than buying generics.
- Like brand-name drugs, generics must be approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and have an excellent safety record.
- Doctors often continue to prescribe brand-name drugs long after generics have appeared on the market.
- Exclusion of generics will help consolidate the brand-name cartel and result in substantial waste of fund resources.
- Over 50 per cent of its revenues come from the U.S., on the back of cheaper generics.
- There are no plans to provide cheap generics to Russia or China where the epidemic is gathering pace.
- Now, India's scrappy generics industry is hoping for a bigger conquest.
- Sometimes ordering brand name drugs instead of generics does make a difference.
- The company was clearly dipping into both the brand name and generics markets until the competition got serious.
- This is because generics aren't exactly identical to the original drug.
- When a patent expires, the generics step in and sell analog versions of the brand name product for a fraction of the price.
- As a result, they may not be equivalent to brand-name products or as safe as generics purchased from a legitimate site in the United States.
- It will also make people seriously consider whether they must have brand name drugs instead of generics.
- Today's story is the rise of branded generics, where the retailer creates and promotes a brand name for its line of generics.
- As soon as the patent on an expensive brand-name drug expires, the generics come onto the market.
- India has once again scored in the US generics market.
Origin Late 17th century: from French générique, from Latin genus, gener- 'stock, race'. Rhymes alphanumeric, atmospheric, chimeric, cleric, climacteric, congeneric, Derek, derrick, Eric, esoteric, exoteric, ferric, hemispheric, Herrick, Homeric, hysteric, mesmeric, numeric, skerrick, spheric, stratospheric Definition of generic in US English: genericadjectivedʒəˈnɛrɪkjəˈnerik 1Characteristic of or relating to a class or group of things; not specific. chèvre is a generic term for all goat's milk cheese Example sentencesExamples - In truth, it's fairly generic for this sort of thing.
- Lurking inside that generic category was a simple set of steps that is the essence of design.
- It is written in broad and generic terms and, as a result, remains relatively unchanged for three to five years.
- Once a trademark has become generic, it must remain available for all to use.
- Carrying out similar duties each day at work makes the tasks generic, which interferes with your ability to recall.
- As long as an applicant achieved the requisite points on the generic characteristics cited above he or she would gain selection.
- Equally though, it can be based on a template or a model that is more generic in nature.
- The inclusion of context specific as well as generic aspects of methodological quality is sometimes sensible.
- The point I make here is that " architect " is a generic term.
- Again, it's a pretty generic story, but it's consistently watchable.
- This makes it relatively difficult to relate to the characters despite the universally generic themes of this genre.
- A lot of courses that I would be interested in aren't available in the summer, so I'm stuck with generic classes.
- Although that premise is fairly generic, it still hits a few good notes.
- "If I had a more generic name, I'd sign petitions with impunity, " he said.
- Initially he would have sort of linked the two together as generic processes of defence.
- Look through the pictures and pigeonhole each one into a generic class.
- One final point of emphasis: this evaluation should be done in terms of generic deployments, not specific ones.
- Trademarks must be enforced or they risk becoming generic, and not protected.
- The interiors are neither universal nor generic but specific, tailored, and unpredictable.
- However, the law has historically held that generic terms cannot be trademarks.
Synonyms general, common, collective, non-specific, inclusive, all-inclusive, all-encompassing, broad, comprehensive, blanket, umbrella, sweeping, universal, cross-disciplinary, interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary - 1.1 (of goods, especially medicinal drugs) having no brand name; not protected by a registered trademark.
Example sentencesExamples - He would like to see generic drugs - cheap copies of expensive medicines - made available.
- Like other big-name pharmaceutical companies, the company's profit margins are being pressured by generic drugmakers.
- What this meant was that pharmacists could substitute a generic drug for a brand name.
- But are all generic drugs truly equal to their brand name counterparts?
- In principle this meant developing countries should have the right to have access to cheap generic drugs.
- Lumping brand-name and generic drugs together, drug prices rose 4 percent last year.
- Very few countries had fully integrated brand name or generic drug industries within their borders.
- Generic drugmakers have raced to copy the drugs more cheaply, especially in Brazil and India.
- There has been considerable talk about the threat of competition from the smaller biotechnology outfits and generic drugmakers.
- Often doctors and patients don't trust generic medications, preferring the brand name drugs.
- The Ethiopian Government says it's encouraging local manufacturers to produce cheap generic AIDS drugs.
- His proposed amendment to protect cheaper, generic drugs has turned a big issue into a small one.
- This handy reference includes a combination of more than 300 most commonly used brand names and generic drug names.
- It is a generic drug, and it's a very good prophylactic medicine.
- This ignores the fact that these generic drugs are only better value if they are safe and effective.
- Hence, if there are more patented medicines, there will be more generic medicines also.
- Aspirin and blockers are cheap generic drugs, but most thrombolytic agents are not.
- The generic manufacturers are simply leaches - hugely profitable ones - on that investment.
- Another big challenge was to make sure that the quality of generic drugs matched that of branded medicines.
- The deal allows countries unable to manufacture medicines domestically to override international patents and import cheap generic drugs when they need to.
Synonyms unbranded, untrademarked, non-proprietary - 1.2derogatory Lacking imagination or individuality; predictable and unoriginal.
generic dance-floor fillers the plot of the film isn't just generic, it's insultingly stupid Example sentencesExamples - Musically, they are actually fairly good, in a generic sort of way.
- The story is pretty generic and the action scenes vary in quality, some were crisp and exiting, others were muddled, digitally-enhanced blurs.
- The arrangements and production are totally generic.
- The plotline is exactly what it needs to be and not a single word of dialogue is ever wasted, so even though the story and setting is totally generic on one front, it never actually becomes tedious or boring.
- The plot of the film isn't just generic, it's insultingly stupid.
- Bad actors play characters made up of tired clichés, stumbling through generic dialogue.
- We love it when dull generic thrillers get given vaguely technological titles to try and make them sound more interesting and get it wrong.
- Unlike in many anime series, these characters don't feel generic or cut from the same overused cloth.
- Silence is the rule for our heroes, and that means a bit of extra claustrophobia to scenes that would otherwise be totally generic.
- The music throughout is nonvocal, so there's little distraction, and is fairly generic dance-style music that most viewers should find inoffensive.
2Biology
Relating to a genus. Example sentencesExamples - Thus, each new imitator brings its own unique traits to the generic family.
- He thought that most of the future work of the committee would be at the level about the species, at the generic and subgeneric levels.
- Most of his Famennian species are probably valid taxa, but their generic assignments need to be re-evaluated.
- Sprinkleocystis ektopios is monotypic therefore generic and species diagnoses are redundant.
- They reported not only interlocked branches but also fused branches in a generic and species level taxa.
noundʒəˈnɛrɪkjəˈnerik A consumer product having no brand name or registered trademark. substituting generics for brand-name drugs Example sentencesExamples - Like brand-name drugs, generics must be approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and have an excellent safety record.
- As a result, they may not be equivalent to brand-name products or as safe as generics purchased from a legitimate site in the United States.
- The generics can produce a price decrease of 30 per cent.
- There are no plans to provide cheap generics to Russia or China where the epidemic is gathering pace.
- Today's story is the rise of branded generics, where the retailer creates and promotes a brand name for its line of generics.
- Now, India's scrappy generics industry is hoping for a bigger conquest.
- It will also make people seriously consider whether they must have brand name drugs instead of generics.
- But should they forgo profits in order to develop the Brazilian generics industry?
- Over 50 per cent of its revenues come from the U.S., on the back of cheaper generics.
- India has once again scored in the US generics market.
- When a patent expires, the generics step in and sell analog versions of the brand name product for a fraction of the price.
- Sometimes ordering brand name drugs instead of generics does make a difference.
- The company was clearly dipping into both the brand name and generics markets until the competition got serious.
- Many, it contends, are little more than dubious efforts by brand-name companies looking to prevent competition from generics.
- The drug companies do take advantage of these things to forestall cheaper generics.
- As soon as the patent on an expensive brand-name drug expires, the generics come onto the market.
- Exclusion of generics will help consolidate the brand-name cartel and result in substantial waste of fund resources.
- Doctors often continue to prescribe brand-name drugs long after generics have appeared on the market.
- This is because generics aren't exactly identical to the original drug.
- But donations of branded drugs actually cost donor countries four times more than buying generics.
Origin Late 17th century: from French générique, from Latin genus, gener- ‘stock, race’. |