trading post
7
3.7
- noun
- /ˈtreɪdɪŋ poʊst/
:
punto de intercambio
- In the 1800s, fur traders relied on the trading post as a vital location for commercial exchanges with local tribes.
- establish a trading post
The stand is a staple at the trading post and he makes books into clocks.
- The stand is a staple at the trading post and he makes books into clocks.
- They're trying to get down to Byzantium and the and a midpoint, a beautiful trading post along the way is, is Kiev, right?
Examples
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The driving nurse, feeling unwell, decides to drive to the trading post for stomach medicine.
Fiction book (1994) -
I followed Chacon's trail to a little trading post.
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Only one trading post in that whole country.
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"Tell me about what we'll find at the trading post," he said.
Fiction book (1998) -
"Before that it was an Indian trading post called Fort Dallas."
Fiction book (1995) -
It was a big trading post up north.
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Over that hill, you will find a Hudson's Bay trading post.
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Navaho men were walking down the road toward the trading post, some six miles away.
Fiction book (1991) -
The wine went onto the trading post's shelves to be offered to the next visitor.
Fiction book (2002) -
Sure enough, the nineteenth-century trading post was swarming with tourists in crimson "victory" shirts and beribboned bush hats.
Fiction book (2001)
Synonyms
16
2.1
A shop in a small town that sells many everyday things
3
2.7
A small shop in the countryside that sells food and home goods
A store on an army base where soldiers and their families buy goods
An open town area where people meet to buy and sell goods
How Important
75
3.7
- US
38
1.6
- UK
1
3.1
7
3.7
707
1.0
110
6.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'trading' refers to exchange of goods and 'post' can mean a place or station, so together they denote a place where trading occurs. This noun–noun compound follows common cross-linguistic patterns and a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Trading post comes from frontier times when traders set up a simple building called a post to do trading, and people stopped there to swap furs, food, or tools. So today Trading post means 'a store or small settlement where goods are exchanged'.