Traffic

/ˈtɹæfɪk/ · noun

Meaning

Moving pedestrians or vehicles, or the flux or passage thereof..

Definitions by Sense

1. Moving pedestrians or vehicles, or the flux or passage thereof.
2. The commercial transportation or exchange of goods, or the movement of passengers or people.
3. The illegal trade or exchange of goods, often drugs.
4. The exchange or flux of information, messages or data, as in a computer or telephone network.
5. The commodities of the market.
6. (intransitive) To pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to buy or sell goods.
7. (intransitive) To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain.
8. (transitive) To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration.

Example Sentences

The traffic is slow during rush hour.

VVhoſe miſaduentures, piteous ouerthrovves, / (Through the continuing of their Fathers ſtrife, / And death-markt paſſage of their Parents rage) / Is novv the tvvo hovvres traffique of our Stage.

I had three large axes, and abundance of hatchets (for we carried the hatchets for traffic with the Indians).

To assume that the recent investigation of the white slave traffic (and, by the way, a very superficial investigation) has discovered anything new, is, to say the least, very foolish

Its units of study are regions or oceans, long-distance trades [...], the traffic of cults and beliefs between cultures and continents.

They, in turn, had long dominated the drug traffic in the area of north-east Afghanistan that they controlled during the Taliban years.

The parish stank of idolatry, abominable rites were practiced in secret, and in all the bounds there was no one had a more evil name for the black traffic than one Alison Sempill, who bode at the Skerburnfoot.

Internet traffic to legal pornography sites in the UK comprised 8.5% of all "clicks" on web pages in June – exceeding those for shopping, news, business or social networks, according to new data obtained exclusively by the Guardian.

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Word Forms

• traffics
• traffick
• traffique
• trafficking
• trafficked
• more traffic
• most traffic

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