traffic

Meanings

Plural: traffics

Noun

• the aggregation of things (pedestrians or vehicles) coming and going in a particular locality during a specified period of time
• buying and selling; especially illicit trade
• 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"
• social or verbal interchange (usually followed by `with')
• Moving pedestrians or vehicles, or the flux or passage thereof.
• The commercial transportation or exchange of goods, or the movement of passengers or people.
• The illegal trade or exchange of goods, often drugs.
• The exchange or flux of information, messages or data, as in a computer or telephone network.
• Of CB radio, formal written messages relayed on behalf of others.
• The exchange or flux of information, messages or data, as in a computer or telephone network.
• The amount of attention paid to a particular printed page etc., in a publication.
• The exchange or flux of information, messages or data, as in a computer or telephone network.
• The commodities of the market.

Verb

• deal illegally
  • "traffic drugs"
• trade or deal a commodity
  • "They trafficked with us for gold"
• To pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to buy or sell goods.
• To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain.
• To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration.

Adj

• Congested.

Synonyms

dealings, trade, trafficking

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