trade language
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
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.
From Washington Post • Jun. 10, 2022
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.
From Seattle Times • May 29, 2022
Joseph sought them out and calmly informed them in Chinook Jargon, a widely spoken regional trade language, that they were trespassing.
From Slate • May 24, 2017
It later spread to other parts of the West African colonies, becoming a useful trade language among local ethnic groups who spoke different languages.
From BBC • Nov. 16, 2016
In the Chinook vocabulary, which was originally the trade language of all the tribes employed by the Hudson Bay Company in collecting furs, most of the words resemble in sound the objects they represent.
From The Log School-House on the Columbia by Butterworth, Hezekiah
