0 a small place, especially in the past, far from other places in which people live, where goods can be bought and sold or exchanged: --
New York was originally a Dutch trading post.
1 in the past, a place where goods were bought, sold, or bartered: --
This building allows the training of allied minor civilization units at the embassy rather than at the trading post.
Soon after the trading post was organized, huge brick and adobe commercial houses were constructed across the street.
Located there were a trading post and saloon.
In 1844 a trading post was established eight miles south of the village.
The agency and a trading post were located there.
The site was already a tobacco trading post when the inspection house was built.
Later, the expedition puts in at a company trading post and leaves a warning not to interfere.
No conflict arose at the ferry, so the fort became a trading post, then a residence.
