Meaning

1 senses
  1. A place where trading of goods takes place.

    He runs a small trading post in the vicinity of New Hampshire.

    Handelszentrum, Handelsniederlassung, Handelshof

More definitions
  • a retail store serving a sparsely populated region; usually stocked with a wide variety of merchandise

Examples

3 sentences
  1. The British set up a trading post near present-day Freetown in the 17th century.

  2. The Phoenicians ran many trading posts in North Africa, doing business with the local Berber populations.

  3. The Phoenicians founded many trading posts in North Africa where they did business with the local Berber populations.

Translations

6 languages
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By meaning 1
place where trading of goods takes place:

Forms

plural: trading posts
Singulartrading post
Pluraltrading posts

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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