trading_post has definitions from the field of business
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[ noun ] (business) a retail store serving a sparsely populated region; usually stocked with a wide variety of merchandise

Used in print

(John Harnsberger and Robert P. Wilkins,...)

On Big_Stone_Lake near the headwaters of the Red_River , Robert_Dickson , Superintendent of the Western Indian_Department of Canada , had a trading_post and planned in 1818 to build a fort to be defended by twenty men and two small artillery pieces .

Related terms

mercantile_establishment

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