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TRAFFICKED
TRAFFIC
traffic
(verb) trade or deal a commodity; “They trafficked with us for gold”
traffic
(verb) deal illegally; “traffic drugs”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
trafficked (not comparable)
carrying traffic
Usage notes
As an adjective it is often preceded by a qualifying adverb, such as heavily, lightly, moderately, thinly.
Verb
trafficked
simple past tense and past participle of traffic
simple past tense and past participle of traffick
Source: Wiktionary
TRAFFIC
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. ĂĽbermachen 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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