trading post

English

trading post (plural trading posts)

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. . .’

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

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