The international business community sees English as a lingua franca.
Meaning of lingua franca in English
(Definition of lingua franca from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of lingua franca
lingua franca
English, as the world's de facto lingua franca, has a habit of creeping into many of the world's languages, often to their speakers' chagrin.
From Foreign Policy
Is bacon a trend, a state of mind, a sign of the times or some weird kind of cultural lingua franca?
From TIME
There is no scientific lingua franca, not even mathematics.
From NPR
With the common perceptual grammar of humans and machines -- the lingua franca of the uncanny valley -- growing richer, we're inching out across that isthmus already.
From Fast Company
Their preference for indigenous industrial materials, casual detailing, and unfussy finishes has become the architectural lingua franca of the contemporary art world.
Hip-hop is now the lingua franca and the background music for an entire generation of kids.
From NPR
He dares the audience to reject the xenophobic lingua franca, to accompany him on a quest for the truth, however unsettling.
From NOLA.com
English is the lingua franca of contemporary web and app development, both of our tools and our discourse.
From The Verge
Thus having a lingua franca for global science is clearly an asset.
From National Geographic
Before kitteh memes became lingua franca of the web, cat people were a relative minority and the hijinks of any individual animal were largely just enjoyed by their owners.
From Wired
And truly, money is the lingua franca of the realm in this play -- cloth bags filled with coins sail through the air as the characters scheme and double-cross each other.
From Chicago Tribune
Although figurine bodies have garnered increased attention in the literature, figurine heads remain the lingua franca when discussing small clay images.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
The questions below are meant to both provoke discussion and guide future research in teacher preparation in lingua franca settings.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
This language is used as a lingua franca in meetings and written communication, and it also functions as a symbolic expression of organizational unity.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
It has been propagated by a strong ideological campaign, and it now serves as a lingua franca among immigrants from many language backgrounds.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
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