trading post
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English
Noun
trading post (plural trading posts)
- A place where trading of goods takes place.
- He runs a small trading post in the vicinity of New Hampshire.
- 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:
- 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. . .’
Hyponyms
Translations
place where trading of goods takes place
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References
- “trading post”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.