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chief trader Fur Trade, Hist.

• a commissioned officer a grade lower than a chief factor, and usually in charge of a trading post.

  See also: chief factor  

  • 1821  (1900)  We found here Mr. J. W. Dean a Chief Trader to whom I delivered his Commission.
  • 1955  There were also two lower ranks of Gentlemen--men with sufficient education and, it was hoped, ability to rise to the positions of chief trader and chief factor--clerks and apprentice clerks.