TRAFFIC

dealings, traffic

(noun) social or verbal interchange (usually followed by ‘with’)

traffic

(noun) buying and selling; especially illicit trade

traffic

(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”

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; “They trafficked with us for gold”

traffic

(verb) deal illegally; “traffic drugs”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

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.

Verb

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

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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. übermachen 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. tráfico, tráfago, Pg. tráfego, 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

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