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trading post

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trading post
n.
A station or store in a sparsely settled area established by traders to barter supplies for local products.
trading post
n
1. (Business / Commerce) a general store established by a trader in an unsettled or thinly populated region
2. (Economics, Accounting & Finance / Stock Exchange) Stock Exchange a booth or location on an exchange floor at which a particular security is traded
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Noun1.trading posttrading post - a retail store serving a sparsely populated region; usually stocked with a wide variety of merchandise
country store, general store
mercantile establishment, outlet, retail store, sales outlet - a place of business for retailing goods
Translations
trading post n → stazione f commerciale
trading post n → stazione f commerciale


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I have carried him thousands and thousands of miles on scout duty for the army, and there's not a gorge, nor a pass, nor a valley, nor a fort, nor a trading post, nor a buffalo-range in the whole sweep of the Rocky Mountains and the Great Plains that we don't know as well as we know the bugle-calls.
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And stretching away in all directions, surrounding the insignificant cleared spot of the trading post, immense forests, hiding fateful complications of fantastic life, lay in the eloquent silence of mute greatness.
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None would guess that he had been connected with the killing of the stranger in the little out-of-the-way trading post upon a remote shore.
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