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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Pottery Was Important to Ancient Trade Routes Pottery and ceramics were also essential to ancient trade routes.
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Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 29 Feb. 2024
Even oil tankers, which for a time had continued their transit through the Red Sea even as cargo vessels headed for safer passages, abandoned the trade route this week.
—Will Daniel, Fortune, 13 Jan. 2024
British naval historian Andrew Lambert has pointed out how nation-states from ancient Tyre to modern Great Britain created increasingly complex trade routes protected by their navies to generate wealth and then political power in an exponential manner.
—Jim Talent, National Review, 6 Jan. 2024
Ikea is warning of possible shortages of some of its products as shipping companies bypass the Red Sea, one of the world's busiest trade routes, because of mounting security threats in the region.
—Elizabeth Napolitano, CBS News, 21 Dec. 2023
Octopus Baja is Delgado’s ode to historic spice trade routes, a Mexican seafood concept at 2731 K St. in midtown Sacramento that is unafraid to draw from Japanese, Peruvian and European cuisines.
—Benjy Egel, Sacramento Bee, 4 Mar. 2024
Faced with mounting Red Sea violence, major shipping lines have largely abandoned the critical trade route for longer routes around Africa.
—NBC News, 19 Feb. 2024
But tensions in the key trade route could also cool, leading oil prices and inflation to drop and paving the way for a soft landing—where inflation fades without a recession.
—Will Daniel, Fortune, 13 Jan. 2024
The attacks, which the Houthis say are in support of Palestinians in Gaza, have raised the cost of shipping and insurance by disrupting a key trade route between Asia and Europe used widely by ships from China.
—Phil Helsel, NBC News, 27 Jan. 2024
Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 29 Feb. 2024
Even oil tankers, which for a time had continued their transit through the Red Sea even as cargo vessels headed for safer passages, abandoned the trade route this week.
—Will Daniel, Fortune, 13 Jan. 2024
British naval historian Andrew Lambert has pointed out how nation-states from ancient Tyre to modern Great Britain created increasingly complex trade routes protected by their navies to generate wealth and then political power in an exponential manner.
—Jim Talent, National Review, 6 Jan. 2024
Ikea is warning of possible shortages of some of its products as shipping companies bypass the Red Sea, one of the world's busiest trade routes, because of mounting security threats in the region.
—Elizabeth Napolitano, CBS News, 21 Dec. 2023
Octopus Baja is Delgado’s ode to historic spice trade routes, a Mexican seafood concept at 2731 K St. in midtown Sacramento that is unafraid to draw from Japanese, Peruvian and European cuisines.
—Benjy Egel, Sacramento Bee, 4 Mar. 2024
Faced with mounting Red Sea violence, major shipping lines have largely abandoned the critical trade route for longer routes around Africa.
—NBC News, 19 Feb. 2024
But tensions in the key trade route could also cool, leading oil prices and inflation to drop and paving the way for a soft landing—where inflation fades without a recession.
—Will Daniel, Fortune, 13 Jan. 2024
The attacks, which the Houthis say are in support of Palestinians in Gaza, have raised the cost of shipping and insurance by disrupting a key trade route between Asia and Europe used widely by ships from China.
—Phil Helsel, NBC News, 27 Jan. 2024
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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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