Traffic


noun
1.
the movement of vehicles, ships, persons, etc., in an area, along a street, through an air lane, over a water route, etc.:
the heavy traffic on Main Street.
2.
the vehicles, persons, etc., moving in an area, along a street, etc.
3.
the transportation of goods for the purpose of trade, by sea, land, or air:
ships of traffic.
4.
trade; buying and selling; commercial dealings.
5.
trade between different countries or places; commerce.
6.
the business done by a railroad or other carrier in the transportation of freight or passengers.
7.
the aggregate of freight, passengers, telephone or telegraph messages, etc., handled, especially in a given period.
8.
communication, dealings, or contact between persons or groups:
traffic between the Democrats and the Republicans.
9.
mutual exchange or communication:
traffic in ideas.
10.
trade in some specific commodity or service, often of an illegal nature:
the vast traffic in narcotics.
11.
illegal commercial trade in human beings for the purpose of exploiting them:
the traffic in young children.
verb (used without object), trafficked, trafficking.
12.
to carry on traffic, trade, or commercial dealings.
13.
to trade or deal in a specific commodity or service, often of an illegal nature (usually followed by in):
to traffic in opium.
verb (used with object), trafficked, trafficking.
14.
(of vehicles or persons) to move over or through (a place):
It’s a heavily trafficked bridge.
15.
to trade or deal in (a commodity or service):
to traffic guns.
16.
to trade in (human beings) for the purpose of exploitation:
He was convicted for trafficking illegal immigrants.
noun
1.

the vehicles coming and going in a street, town, etc
(as modifier): traffic lights

2.
the movement of vehicles, people, etc, in a particular place or for a particular purpose: sea traffic
3.

the business of commercial transportation by land, sea, or air
the freight, passengers, etc, transported

4.
(usually foll by with) dealings or business: have no traffic with that man
5.
trade, esp of an illicit or improper kind: drug traffic
6.
the aggregate volume of messages transmitted through a communications system in a given period
7.
(mainly US) the number of customers patronizing a commercial establishment in a given time period
verb (intransitive) -fics, -ficking, -ficked
8.
(often foll by in) to carry on trade or business, esp of an illicit kind
9.
(usually foll by with) to have dealings

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