The offices are merely trading posts, innocuous and politically negligible.

These were trading posts, not factories in the modern sense where goods were manufactured.

Most of the First City's businesses were concentrated here: shops, restaurants, trading posts, and so on.

Many of these outposts were simply trading posts or a combination of a trading post and an Army post.

These "wics" seem to have been trading posts.

Portugal founded settlements, trading posts, forts and ports.

The two then traded posts, and Mr. Shamir has been Prime Minister since.

Since the 15th century, Portugal founded settlements, trading posts, forts and ports in the Sub-Saharan Africa's coast.

Instead the French and the British established mostly trading posts and utilized the natives in the area as suppliers.

The latter were essentially trading posts, settled for profit in an alien soil, in which they did not take an interest for its own sake.