trade language

American  

noun

1. a lingua franca, especially one used primarily for trade and conducting business.

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Etymology

Origin of trade language

First recorded in 1955–65

Example Sentences

Wyden pushed back on the criticisms, casting the amended trade language as a tailored approach to combat censorship by authoritarian countries like China and Russia.

From Washington Post

On a document twice translated, first from English to Chinook jargon, a limited trade language, and then to Native dialects, the treaty’s terms were laid out.

From Seattle Times

This “trade language,” as she later calls English, is weak, insufficient.

From The New Yorker

Mr Allen says the pair are fluent in the trade language, Tok Pisin, and are studying the Kamea language - an unwritten dialect until 2009, when the couple began to note it down.

From BBC

Joseph sought them out and calmly informed them in Chinook Jargon, a widely spoken regional trade language, that they were trespassing.

From Slate