trafficker

English

Etymology

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English traffic

English -er

English trafficker

From traffic + -er.

Noun

trafficker (plural traffickers)

1. (chiefly derogatory) Someone who traffics; a trader or merchant of illegal products, or of legal products in an illegal setting.

   drug trafficker

   human trafficker

   • 2008, Claire M. Renzetti, Jeffrey L. Edleson, Encyclopedia of Interpersonal Violence, SAGE, →ISBN:

     Trafficking Methods Traffickers may be members of organized crime networks or may be locals, friends, or even family members well known to the victim. […] In addition, traffickers may be involved in other criminal activities— for example, using the vehicles that transport victims and drugs out of a country to transport weapons or other items back in.

Derived terms

• drug trafficker
• human trafficker

Related terms

• trafficking

Translations

someone who traffics (in anything)

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 販子 / 贩子 (zh) (fànzi)

• Esperanto: ŝakristo (eo)
• Finnish: välittäjä (fi), kauppias (fi)
• French: trafiquant (fr) m
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: μεταβολεύς m (metaboleús)

• Hindi: तस्कर (hi) m (taskar)
• Italian: trafficatore m, trafficante (it) m
• Polish: handlarz (pl) m, przemytnik (pl) m
• Spanish: traficante (es) m

Further reading

• “trafficker”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
• “trafficker” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.