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. . .’
Translations
place where trading of goods takes place
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 貿易站/贸易站 (màoyìzhàn), 交易站 (jiāoyìzhàn)
- Dutch: handelspost (nl) c, handelsplaats (nl) m or f
- Finnish: kauppapaikka (fi)
- French: comptoir (fr) m
- German: Handelszentrum (de) n, Handelsniederlassung (de) f, Handelshof m (obsolete)
- Greek:
- Ancient: ἐμπόριον n (empórion)
- Italian: base commerciale f
- Japanese: please add this translation if you can
- Korean: please add this translation if you can
- Maori: wharehokohoko
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: handelspost m
- Nynorsk: handelspost m
- Ojibwe: adaawewigamig
- Polish: faktoria (pl) f
- Portuguese: entreposto comercial m
- Russian: please add this translation if you can
- Spanish: puesto comercial m
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