trade route

NOUN

route for traders

Synonyms

STRONGEST

sea lane

WEAK

air lane flight path shipping lane silk road trader route traffic lane

Example Sentences

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Experts say this indicates the bridge is expected to become an important trade route between the two countries.

From BBC • May 6, 2026

As restrictions remain on the vital trade route, Americans are beginning to see financial impacts beyond the gas pump.

From Salon • Apr. 10, 2026

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

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

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