trade route
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of trade route
First recorded in 1875–80
Example Sentences
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Shipping traffic remains throttled in the Strait of Hormuz, a trade route off Iran’s coast that fully a third of the world’s seagoing oil exports traverse in a normal year.
From Slate • Mar. 11, 2026
The visit is expected to advance a flagship transport communications project integrating the two countries into a new east-west trade route.
From Barron's • Feb. 10, 2026
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 • Oct. 29, 2025
El Paso, which means “the pass,” got its name from Spanish explorers who arrived in the late 16th century and established a trade route here leading from Mexico City to Santa Fe.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 27, 2025
Perhaps the Austronesian colonists of Madagascar reached India from Indonesia by that eastern trade route and then fell in with the westward trade route to East Africa, where they joined with Africans and discovered Madagascar.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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