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trade language

noun

Definition of trade language

: a restructured language (such as a lingua franca or pidgin) used especially in commercial communication

Examples of trade language in a Sentence

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 The crowd had started out waving tricolors and Stars and Stripes, trading chants, trading languages. — New York Times, "With an Abundance of Confidence, U.S. Gives an Advanced Class in Cool," 28 June 2019

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First Known Use of trade language

1662, in the meaning defined above

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