Meanings
plural trading posts
- A place where trading of goods takes place.
He runs a small trading post in the vicinity of New Hampshire.
2 more examples
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 208For 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
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna retail store serving a sparsely populated region; usually stocked with a wide variety of merchandise
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Ancient Greek ἐμπόριον
- ἐμπόριον (empórion)place where trading of goods takes place
Chinese Mandarin 貿易站 /贸易站, 交易站
- 貿易站 /贸易站 (màoyìzhàn)place where trading of goods takes place
- 交易站 (jiāoyìzhàn)place where trading of goods takes place
Dutch handelspost, handelsplaats
- handelspostplace where trading of goods takes place
- handelsplaatsplace where trading of goods takes place
Finnish kauppapaikka
- kauppapaikkaplace where trading of goods takes place
French comptoir
- comptoirplace where trading of goods takes place
German Handelszentrum, Handelsniederlassung
- Handelszentrumplace where trading of goods takes place
- Handelsniederlassungplace where trading of goods takes place
- Handelshofplace where trading of goods takes place
Italian base commerciale
- base commercialeplace where trading of goods takes place
Māori wharehokohoko
- wharehokohokoplace where trading of goods takes place
Norwegian Bokmål handelspost
- handelspostplace where trading of goods takes place
Polish faktoria
- faktoriaplace where trading of goods takes place
Portuguese entreposto comercial
- entreposto comercialplace where trading of goods takes place
Spanish puesto comercial
- puesto comercialplace where trading of goods takes place
Cite this entry
trading post. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/trading%20post
“trading post.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/trading%20post. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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