lingua franca

Converse of object

• become: English is becoming one lingua franca which of us cause to sigh with relief!
• speak: Non-market subsystems in contrast use money terms only as a lingua franca spoken with a foreign accent and some dubious prepositions.
• remain: German is now spoken by up to 100 million people as their mother tongue tho English remains the lingua franca.
• use: A page-description language is the lingua franca used by a print server and a printer.

Adjective modifier

• global: EM uncovers how English is changing and spotlights people, groups and governments as they embrace and fight the global lingua franca.
• international: English operates as an international lingua franca and the great majority of communication in English is between people who come from non-Anglo backgrounds.
• current: Perhaps England's greatest cultural export has been the English language, the current lingua franca of the international community.
• new: English may be the new lingua franca, a competitive advantage for us as a nation, not least in education.

Modifies a noun

• communication: My last research project investigated phonological intelligibility in English lingua franca communication.

Noun used with modifier

• inclusivist: The new Northern Ireland Assembly will need to institutionalize what we might term an inclusivist lingua franca, or common-sense.

Preposition: in

• city: It is a lingua franca in all inner cities where Asians are in majority.

Preposition: of

• world: The argument runs that English is the lingua franca of the technological world in which Nigeria is seeking to operate.