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trade language

noun

  1. a lingua franca, especially one used primarily for trade and conducting business.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of trade language1

First recorded in 1955–65
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Example Sentences

Wyden pushed back on the criticisms, casting the amended trade language as a tailored approach to combat censorship by authoritarian countries like China and Russia.

For weeks, consumer advocates have sounded the alarm that trade language in the massive China competition bill under negotiation on Capitol Hill could be exploited by the tech giants to target regulations overseas, including Europe’s sweeping new digital rules.

On a document twice translated, first from English to Chinook jargon, a limited trade language, and then to Native dialects, the treaty’s terms were laid out.

English, for better or worse, is the trade language of most pornography.

From Slate

This “trade language,” as she later calls English, is weak, insufficient.

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