Traffic

['træfɪk]

Definition

(noun.) buying and selling; especially illicit trade.

(noun.) the amount of activity over a communication system during a given period of time; 'heavy traffic overloaded the trunk lines'; 'traffic on the internet is lightest during the night'.

(noun.) the aggregation of things (pedestrians or vehicles) coming and going in a particular locality during a specified period of time.

(verb.) trade or deal a commodity; 'They trafficked with us for gold'.

(verb.) deal illegally; 'traffic drugs'.

Typed by Alphonse--From WordNet

Definition

(v. i.) To pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to buy or sell goods; to barter; to trade.

(v. i.) To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain.

(v. t.) To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration.

(v.) Commerce, either by barter or by buying and selling; interchange of goods and commodities; trade.

(v.) Commodities of the market.

(v.) The business done upon a railway, steamboat line, etc., with reference to the number of passengers or the amount of freight carried.

Checker: Rosalind

Synonyms and Synonymous

n. Trade, commerce.

v. n. Trade, deal, bargain, chaffer, carry on commerce, buy and sell.

Editor: Theresa

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Commerce, exchange, intercourse,[See COMMERCE_and_OCCUPATION]

Checked by Brett

Definition

n. commerce: large trade: the business done on a railway &c.—v.i. to trade: to trade meanly.—v.t. to exchange:—pr.p. traff′icking; pa.t. and pa.p. traff′icked.—n. Traff′icker.—adj. Traff′icless.—n. Traff′ic-man′ager the manager of the traffic on a railway &c.

Typist: Stanley

Examples

Edited by Ingram

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