单词 | traffic monitoring |
释义 | > as lemmastraffic monitoring b. With participles, verbal nouns, and agent nouns, forming compounds in which traffic (chiefly in senses of branch II.) expresses the object of the underlying verb, as in traffic management, traffic manager, traffic monitoring, traffic-reducing, traffic reporting, etc. See also traffic calming n. at Compounds 2, traffic controller n., traffic engineering n., traffic stopper n., traffic-stopping adj., traffic taker n. at Compounds 2.Recorded earliest in traffic taker n. (1837). ΚΠ 1837 Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock & Ayr Railway Bill: Minutes of Evid. 110 in Sessional Papers House of Lords (H.L. 146.1) XVIII. 1 I furnished them regularly with the Duplicates of the Traffic-takers. 1857 Dublin Univ. Mag. Oct. 449/2 The traffic management of the Irish railways. 1862 A. Helps Organization Daily Life 30 A skilful traffic-manager has been suffered to be too despotic in matters of traffic. 1901 Academy 22 June 540/1 One sight amazes him..the effect produced when the traffic-regulating policeman raises his hand. 1969 Jrnl. Inst. Navigation 22 285 Traffic routing..may be thought to introduce a new situation. 1992 Police June 99/3 The unattended radar or red-light camera could easily have the single lens reflex camera replaced by a video camera, allowing real-time traffic monitoring from a central location. 2002 Vanity Fair Apr. 380 Saperstein conceived the idea for a new kind of traffic-reporting service while he was stuck in a bumper-to-bumper jam on a Baltimore expressway. 2006 New Yorker 13 Nov. 44/2 And numerous allies in city government whom the staff lobbies to enact bike-friendly legislation and other traffic-reducing measures. < as lemmas |
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