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
- This accident caused some delay, but the other tubes were in the meantime progressing, and the completed bridge was opened for public traffic on the 21st of October, 1850. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- As is well known to the wise in their generation, traffic in Shares is the one thing to have to do with in this world. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- It was begun in 1876 and opened for traffic in 1883, and its cost was about $15,000,000. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- At that time, the steam-traffic on the Thames was far below its present extent, and watermen's boats were far more numerous. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The present omnibus traffic in London alone amounts to nearly ￡20,000 per week. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Traffic is what they put for'ard; but it's to do harm to the land and the poor man in the long-run. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The traffic returns for the week ending the 25th of September, 1858, amounted to ￡502,720; and the gross receipts of the railways in 1857 were ￡24,174,610. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- I have trafficked with the good fathers, and bought wheat and barley, and fruits of the earth, and also much wool. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
Edited by Ingram