Dictionary

trading post en · NOUN

Meanings

1. A place where trading of goods takes place.
   • For two years the Easterner had been searching for his lost brother, at trading posts and Army forts all along the frontier. 1950, Dorothy M. Johnson, War Shirt; in Indian Country, London: Corgi, 1961, page 107:
   • 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:
   • He runs a small trading post in the vicinity of New Hampshire.

Forms

Hyponyms

factory & colony · fondaco

Translations (18)

pl faktoria (place where trading of goods takes place) · de Handelszentrum (place where trading of goods takes place) · mi wharehokohoko (place where trading of goods takes place) · grc ἐμπόριον (place where trading of goods takes place) · nb handelspost (place where trading of goods takes place) · de Handelshof (place where trading of goods takes place) · cmn 交易站 (place where trading of goods takes place) · fr comptoir (place where trading of goods takes place) · cmn 貿易站 /贸易站 (place where trading of goods takes place) · fi kauppapaikka (place where trading of goods takes place) · nn handelspost (place where trading of goods takes place) · de Handelsniederlassung (place where trading of goods takes place) · oj adaawewigamig (place where trading of goods takes place) · it base commerciale (place where trading of goods takes place) · es puesto comercial (place where trading of goods takes place) · pt entreposto comercial (place where trading of goods takes place) · nl handelspost (place where trading of goods takes place) · nl handelsplaats (place where trading of goods takes place)