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

How to use trading stamp in a sentence

Forget those silly “games played with the ball”; they are far “too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind.”
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The Federal Duck Stamp Act raised the fee on stamps needed to hunt waterfowl on federal land from $15 to $25.
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Along the river, crumbling remnants of an active trading hub are overtaken by nature.
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In Tuesday trading alone, it plunged by more than 20 percent against the U.S. dollar.
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Official Donetsk Republic business was log-jammed because the high command had only one stamp for documents and identity papers.
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“You must leave this house this moment,” she cried, with a stamp, with gleaming eyes and very pale.
Checkmate|Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
This, of course, I always gave to the guide to use in sending the letter when he got to the trading-post.
The Boarded-Up House|Augusta Huiell Seaman
Cotton exchanges reopened on November 16, and stock exchanges opened for restricted trading shortly thereafter.
Readings in Money and Banking|Chester Arthur Phillips
It's a certainty that they will be captured if they spend that money at any trading-post within our jurisdiction.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair
Jacob robbed his brother of his birthright by trading on his hunger; Joseph robbed a whole people in the same way.
God and my Neighbour|Robert Blatchford

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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