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trading post
noun
- a store established in an unsettled or thinly settled region by a trader or trading company to obtain furs and local products in exchange for supplies, clothing, other goods, or for cash.
trading post
noun
- a general store established by a trader in an unsettled or thinly populated region
- stock exchange a booth or location on an exchange floor at which a particular security is traded
Word History and Origins
Origin of trading post1
Example Sentences
Behind the trading post is a smaller building where Ford films featuring John Wayne are shown each night.
This, of course, I always gave to the guide to use in sending the letter when he got to the trading-post.
It's a certainty that they will be captured if they spend that money at any trading-post within our jurisdiction.
So it was decided that Roly and his father should go to the trading-post with Coffee Jack for guide.
At the village Ike joined them, and others came at intervals until the entire white population of the trading-post was present.
The log they were going to use to batter down the door lay smouldering, abandoned in the yard of the trading post.
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