trading post

English

Noun

trading post (plural trading posts)

1. 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

• fondaco; see also factory & colony

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

References

• “trading post”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.