doing business as
Commercial name registration
Doing business as introduces an alternate name under which a person or company operates commercially, abbreviated DBA or d/b/a.
A legal entity might file a DBA to conduct trade under a different name: John Smith, doing business as Smith's Auto Repair.
The phrase appears in legal documents, business registrations, and contracts to clarify the relationship between an official name and a trade name.
- trade nameCommercial product label
- signMark conveying information
- storefront signExterior business nameplate
- fictitious nameMade-up appellation
- assumed nameAdopted false identity
logo · contract · paper · subsidiary · domain name · affiliate · division · merger · franchise · logo design · register · county clerk · public records · joint venture · trademark law · tagline · corporate compliance · card
- business documentsarticles of incorporation, invoice, charter, bylaws, contract
- Legal Fictionslegal person, personhood, presumed death, legal death, civil death
doing business asincorporated
Legally formed as company
LLC · limited liability company · corporation · Inc. · holding company
doing business aslegal name
Official designation on records
true name · corporate name · official name · real name · given name
doing, does, done, undoing, undone, redoing, redone, busily, busier