traffic
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle French trafique (“traffic”), from Italian traffico (“traffic”) from Italian trafficare (“to carry on trade”). Potentially from Vulgar Latin *transfricare (“to rub across”).
Pronunciation[edit]
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- Rhymes: -æfɪk
Noun[edit]
traffic (uncountable)
- Pedestrians or vehicles on roads, or the flux or passage thereof.
- Traffic is slow at rush hour.
- Commercial transportation or exchange of goods, or the movement of passengers or people.
- 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe:
- I had three large axes, and abundance of hatchets (for we carried the hatchets for traffic with the Indians).
- 2007, John Darwin, After Tamerlane, Penguin 2008, p. 12:
- It's units of study are regions or oceans, long-distance trades [...], the traffic of cults and beliefs between cultures and continents.
- 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe:
- Illegal trade or exchange of goods, often drugs.
- Exchange or flux of information, messages or data, as in a computer or telephone network.
Derived terms[edit]
Terms derived from traffic (noun)
Translations[edit]
pedestrians or vehicles on roads or on the air
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commercial transportation or exchange of goods
illegal trade or exchange of goods, often drugs
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exchange or flux of information, messages or data
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Verb[edit]
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; to barter; to trade.
- (intransitive) To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain.
- (transitive) To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration.
Translations[edit]
To pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money
To trade meanly or mercenarily;
To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration
References[edit]
- traffic in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
