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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As on the Egyptian side, Cherian says, the trade route didn’t end at Muziris but would have continued across land and sea to India’s east coast and on to China.
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Jo Marchant, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 June 2024
Economic experts had warned that increasing tariffs to as high as 20 percent could disrupt trade routes.
—Melissa Eddy, New York Times, 12 June 2024
For Moscow, this is all part of a race with the West to create new trade routes to compensate for the economic rupture caused by the war in Ukraine.
—Thomas De Waal, Foreign Affairs, 3 June 2024
Those other regents who aren’t Toranaga or Ishido have converted to Catholicism and benefit from their relationship with the Portuguese Jesuits who have created a lucrative trade route with Japan in exchange for guns and cannons and wealth.
—Jesse Raub, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2024
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Jo Marchant, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 June 2024
Economic experts had warned that increasing tariffs to as high as 20 percent could disrupt trade routes.
—Melissa Eddy, New York Times, 12 June 2024
For Moscow, this is all part of a race with the West to create new trade routes to compensate for the economic rupture caused by the war in Ukraine.
—Thomas De Waal, Foreign Affairs, 3 June 2024
Those other regents who aren’t Toranaga or Ishido have converted to Catholicism and benefit from their relationship with the Portuguese Jesuits who have created a lucrative trade route with Japan in exchange for guns and cannons and wealth.
—Jesse Raub, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2024
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“Trade route.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trade%20route. Accessed 15 Jul. 2024.
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