Traffic

Quick meaning: Traffic is a noun meaning Moving pedestrians or vehicles, or the flux or passage thereof.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

The traffic is slow during rush hour.

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

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.

Word Forms

• traffics
• traffick
• traffique
• trafficking
• trafficked

Synonyms for traffic

Depending on context, synonyms include travel, trafficking, trade, dealings.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include dealings, transportation, road, crossing, carriageway, driving.

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