Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A emall coupon or certificate used in a commercial scheme for increasing retail sales.
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Examples
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"She falls in love with the worst stock-washer in Wall Street, and pushes him off a ferry-boat when she finds he has cornered the trading-stamp market and is bankrupting her father, who is president of the department store trust ----"
Iole Arthur C. [Illustrator] Becker 1899
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Street story showing up the entire bunch and exposing the trading-stamp swindle of the great department stores.
Iole Arthur C. [Illustrator] Becker 1899
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We know that Sabin Industries supplied the Quality Stamp Co. of East Liverpool, Ohio, and Sabin may have supplied decorated dishes to other trading-stamp companies as well.
The Seattle Times 2009
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