trade route
noun
1
: one of the sea-lanes ordinarily used by merchant ships
2
: a route followed by traders (as in caravans)
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Russia's war in Ukraine has increased the military value of Canada's northern territories, even as climate change begins to open polar trade routes.
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Danielle Bochove, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Aug. 2023
Russia’s war in Ukraine has increased the military value of Canada’s northern territories, even as climate change begins to open polar trade routes.
—Danielle Bochove, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Aug. 2023
After the archipelago was discovered by European mariners between 1455 and 1461, the islands became a stopover along Atlantic trade routes, a place for ships to resupply and their new crews to embark.
—Brandon D. Lundy, The Conversation, 30 June 2023
During the Ottoman Empire, guinea fowl were exported from East Africa via Turkey to Europe, and Europeans started calling the birds turkey-cocks or turkey-hens due to the trade route.
—House Beautiful, 18 Aug. 2023
In the past, Dubai Creek was part of the trade route connecting ports in the Arabian Gulf.
—Latifah Al-Hazza, Travel + Leisure, 25 July 2023
The trade route that is most affected is the Northern Europe to South American West Coast corridor.
—Clarisa Diaz, Quartz, 22 June 2023
More than six thousand years ago, humans domesticated peppers, and in the late sixteenth century maritime trade routes carried them to Asia, where most chilies are grown today.
—Clarissa Wei, The New Yorker, 16 June 2023
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi virtually oversaw the signing of a $1.7 billion intercontinental rail system that Moscow claims will rival the Suez Canal as a major global trade route.
—Caitlin McFall, Fox News, 17 May 2023
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Danielle Bochove, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Aug. 2023
Russia’s war in Ukraine has increased the military value of Canada’s northern territories, even as climate change begins to open polar trade routes.
—Danielle Bochove, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Aug. 2023
After the archipelago was discovered by European mariners between 1455 and 1461, the islands became a stopover along Atlantic trade routes, a place for ships to resupply and their new crews to embark.
—Brandon D. Lundy, The Conversation, 30 June 2023
During the Ottoman Empire, guinea fowl were exported from East Africa via Turkey to Europe, and Europeans started calling the birds turkey-cocks or turkey-hens due to the trade route.
—House Beautiful, 18 Aug. 2023
In the past, Dubai Creek was part of the trade route connecting ports in the Arabian Gulf.
—Latifah Al-Hazza, Travel + Leisure, 25 July 2023
The trade route that is most affected is the Northern Europe to South American West Coast corridor.
—Clarisa Diaz, Quartz, 22 June 2023
More than six thousand years ago, humans domesticated peppers, and in the late sixteenth century maritime trade routes carried them to Asia, where most chilies are grown today.
—Clarissa Wei, The New Yorker, 16 June 2023
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi virtually oversaw the signing of a $1.7 billion intercontinental rail system that Moscow claims will rival the Suez Canal as a major global trade route.
—Caitlin McFall, Fox News, 17 May 2023
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First Known Use
1828, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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trade route
noun1
: one of the sea-lanes used by merchant ships
2
: a route followed by traders (as in caravans)
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