trade route

Questions about trade route

What does trade route mean?

trade route means "a lane at sea that is a regularly used route for vessels". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for trade route?

Close synonyms include seaway, sea lane, ship route. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is trade route a common word?

trade route is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.