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trading stamp
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.
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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Word History and Origins
Origin of trading stamp1
An Americanism dating back to 1895–1900
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Example Sentences
Simeon probably has a ninety-nine year lease on his fat carcass—with the soul thrown in for a trading stamp.
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But with trading stamp competition every one is offering merely trading stamps.
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Bulder, the Garter trading stamp man, called according to arrangement.
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Fellows came back with the names of two concerns which were better known to me than the Garter trading stamp.
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You knew that Black was thinking of taking up the trading stamp proposition.
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