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trading post

trading post noun: a place where trading of goods takes place.

Noun

trading post (plural trading posts)

  1. A place where trading of goods takes place.
    • He runs a small trading post in the vicinity of New Hampshire.
    • Further questions elicited from him that Mr Kurtz was at present in charge of a trading post, a very important one, in the true ivory-country, at ‘the very bottom of there. Sends in as much ivory as all the others put together. . .’1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 208

Forms of trading post

pluraltrading posts

Questions about trading post

What does trading post mean?
Trading post means a place where trading of goods takes place.
What part of speech is trading post?
Trading post is a noun.
What is the plural of trading post?
The plural of trading post is trading posts.

Words near trading post in the dictionary

  1. trading partner
  2. trading partners
  3. trading pit
  4. trading pits
  5. trading places
  6. trading post
  7. trading posts
  8. trading stamp
  9. trading stamps
  10. trading turret
  11. trading turrets

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