trade route

American  

noun

1. any route usually taken by merchant ships, caravans, etc.

---

Etymology

Origin of trade route

First recorded in 1875–80

Example Sentences

Operating on an accelerated scale in the northern part of South America will change asset values and trade routes in that region.

From MarketWatch

American ports were racing to add taller cranes to their docks to service the larger containerships that have become more common on global trade routes.

From The Wall Street Journal

"For more than a century, these powerful Italian city states had established long-distance trade routes across the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, allowing them to activate a highly efficient system to prevent starvation," he said.

From BBC

No way were they created from the blood, sweat and beers of toiling engineers, massive amounts of human ingenuity melded with trillions in capital delivered along land, ship and jet trade routes.

From The Wall Street Journal

Djibouti has only around one million inhabitants but lies on the strategic trade route of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait on the Red Sea.

From Barron's

Related Words

• sea lane