trading stamp

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noun

a stamp with a certain value given as a premium by a retailer to a customer, specified quantities of these stamps being exchangeable for various articles.

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Origin of trading stamp

An Americanism dating back to 1895–1900

Words nearby trading stamp

trade winds, trading card, trading estate, trading floor, trading post, trading stamp, tradition, traditional, traditionalism, traditionalize, traditional logic

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How to use trading stamp in a sentence

Simeon probably has a ninety-nine year lease on his fat carcass—with the soul thrown in for a trading stamp.
The Rules of the Game|Stewart Edward White
But with trading stamp competition every one is offering merely trading stamps.
Dawson Black: Retail Merchant|Harold Whitehead
Bulder, the Garter trading stamp man, called according to arrangement.
Dawson Black: Retail Merchant|Harold Whitehead
Fellows came back with the names of two concerns which were better known to me than the Garter trading stamp.
Dawson Black: Retail Merchant|Harold Whitehead

You knew that Black was thinking of taking up the trading stamp proposition.
Dawson Black: Retail Merchant|Harold Whitehead

British Dictionary definitions for trading stamp

trading stamp

noun

(esp formerly) a stamp of stated value given by some retail organizations to customers, according to the value of their purchases and redeemable for articles offered on a premium list

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