dealings, traffic
(noun) social or verbal interchange (usually followed by âwithâ)
traffic
(noun) buying and selling; especially illicit trade
traffic
(noun) the amount of activity over a communication system during a given period of time; âheavy traffic overloaded the trunk linesâ; âtraffic on the internet is lightest during the nightâ
traffic
(noun) the aggregation of things (pedestrians or vehicles) coming and going in a particular locality during a specified period of time
traffic
(verb) trade or deal a commodity; âThey trafficked with us for goldâ
traffic
(verb) deal illegally; âtraffic drugsâ
Source: WordNet® 3.1
traffic (usually uncountable, plural traffics)
Pedestrians or vehicles on roads, or the flux or passage thereof.
Commercial transportation or exchange of goods, or the movement of passengers or people.
Illegal trade or exchange of goods, often drugs.
Exchange or flux of information, messages or data, as in a computer or telephone network.
In CB radio, formal written messages relayed on behalf of others.
Commodities of the market.
traffic (third-person singular simple present traffics, present participle trafficking, simple past and past participle trafficked)
(intransitive) To pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to buy or sell goods
Synonym: trade
(intransitive) To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain.
(transitive) To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration.
Source: Wiktionary
Traf"fic, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Trafficked; p. pr. & vb. n. Trafficking.] Etym: [F. trafiquer; cf. It. trafficare, Sp. traficar, trafagar, Pg. traficar, trafegar, trafeguear, LL. traficare; of uncertain origin, perhaps fr. L. trans across, over + -ficare to make (see -fy, and cf. G. ĂŒbermachen to transmit, send over, e. g., money, wares); or cf. Pg. trasfegar to pour out from one vessel into another, OPg. also, to traffic, perhaps fr. (assumed) LL. vicare to exchange, from L. vicis change (cf. Vicar).]
1. 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.
2. To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain.
Traf"fic, v. t.
Definition: To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration.
Traf"fic, n. Etym: [Cf. F. trafic, It. traffico, Sp. trĂĄfico, trĂĄfago, Pg. trĂĄfego, LL. traficum, trafica. See Traffic, v.]
1. Commerce, either by barter or by buying and selling; interchange of goods and commodities; trade. A merchant of great traffic through the world. Shak. The traffic in honors, places, and pardons. Macaulay.
Note: This word, like trade, comprehends every species of dealing in the exchange or passing of goods or merchandise from hand to hand for an equivalent, unless the business of relating may be excepted. It signifies appropriately foreign trade, but is not limited to that.
2. Commodities of the market. [R.] You 'll see a draggled damsel From Billingsgate her fishy traffic bear. Gay.
3. The business done upon a railway, steamboat line, etc., with reference to the number of passengers or the amount of freight carried. Traffic return, a periodical statement of the receipts for goods and passengers, as on a railway line.
– Traffic taker, a computer of the returns of traffic on a railway, steamboat line, etc.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
31 March 2025
(adjective) done or made using whatever is available; âcrossed the river on improvised bridgesâ; âthe survivors used jury-rigged fishing gearâ; âthe rock served as a makeshift hammerâ
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