trade route
11
3.0
- noun
- /treɪd ruːt/
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ruta comercial
- The ancient Silk Road was a crucial trade route for exchanging goods between East and West.
- control of trade routes
- ancient trade routes
- established trade routes
What this means for Europe is that the Ottoman Empire now controls the standard trade routes to Asia.
- What this means for Europe is that the Ottoman Empire now controls the standard trade routes to Asia.
- And I would say, yeah, yeah, well, you can look at the shards and say, oh, this came from this tribe and this came from this trade route and so on.
- Rather than a single trade route between East and West, this exhibition presents the Silk Roads as overlapping networks that connected Asia, Africa and Europe.
- We were free marketeers, trade routes among some of them most vibrant in the world.
- So I find myself and this is the silk trade route, right?
- And this area is, is, you know, mostly land with, you know, rivers and stuff like that as well and a great trade route.
Examples
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The great continental rivers were trade routes, bringing art from the classical world to the south.
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Anglo-French rivalry in that region focused on control of the Red Sea trade route to India.
Academic text (1994) -
It's an old trade route.
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The discovery of trade routes affected the relationship between the East and the West.
Academic text (2008) -
In another time, the vessel would have been a merchant ship, following a busy trade route.
Academic text (2011) -
Besides, this is a well-traveled trade route.
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The Governor wants these trade routes re-opened.
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I hear the trade routes have reopened between our nations.
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The wealth, however, came from the city being an important hub for trade routes linking China and Rome.
Academic text (2008) -
Al Jem once stood at the crossroads of important trade routes used by the Romans.
Fiction book (2000)
Synonyms
How Old
1
6.5
11
3.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a route used by traders' is directly and compositionally derived from 'trade' (buying/selling of goods) + 'route' (a path or road). This noun-noun combination follows a regular, cross-linguistically common compounding pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Trade route The noun trade route comes from the simple image of traders travelling along the same road or sea path to buy and sell goods: trade means buying and selling, and route means a road or path. So it now means 'a route regularly used by traders to carry goods'.