traffic
Definition from Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Contents |
[edit] English
[edit] Alternative forms
[edit] Etymology
From French trafic, Spanish tráfico, Italian traffico
[edit] Pronunciation
-
Audio (US) (file)
- Rhymes: -æfɪk
[edit] Noun
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.
[edit] Derived terms
Terms derived from traffic (noun)
[edit] Translations
pedestrians or vehicles on roads or on the air
|
|
commercial transportation or exchange of goods
illegal trade or exchange of goods, often drugs
|
exchange or flux of information, messages or data
|
- The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.
Translations to be checked
|
[edit] 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; 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.
[edit] Translations
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
[edit] References
- traffic in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
