traffic

1 of 2

noun

traf·fic ˈtra-fik How to pronounce traffic (audio)

often attributive

a(1)

: the vehicles, pedestrians, ships, or planes moving along a route

(2)

: congestion of vehicles

stuck in traffic

(3)

: the movement (as of vehicles or pedestrians) through an area or along a route

: the information or signals transmitted over a communications system : messages

: the volume of customers visiting a business establishment

restaurant traffic

: the passengers or cargo carried by a transportation system

: the business of transporting passengers or freight

: import and export trade

: the business of bartering or buying and selling

: illegal or disreputable usually commercial activity

the drug traffic

: communication or dealings especially between individuals or groups

: exchange

a lively traffic in ideas

F. L. Allen

: a concentration of participants or players and especially defensive players

force difficult shots in traffic

archaic : wares, goods

traffic

2 of 2

verb

trafficked; trafficking

intransitive verb

: to carry on traffic

: to concentrate one's effort or interest

broadly : engage, deal

a writer who often traffics in hyperbole

transitive verb

: to travel over

heavily trafficked highways

: to visit as a customer

a highly trafficked bookstore

: trade, barter

trafficker noun

Example Sentences

Noun Let's leave early to avoid rush hour traffic. Traffic is backed up to the bridge. Barge traffic was halted because of flooding. Airlines saw a decrease in passenger traffic this year. Verb arrested him for trafficking in drugs

Recent Examples on the Web

Noun

If a driver sees a school bus that is stopped on a street or a road with fewer than four lanes, all traffic in both directions must stop.

Carol Kovach, cleveland, 13 Sep. 2022 Despite that work, periodic bluff failures occur, such as one Feb. 28, 2021, that briefly halted all rail traffic and periodically delayed trains for months while repairs costing more than $10 million were made.

Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Sep. 2022 Though the move failed, TikTok took steps to silo itself from its Chinese owners and announced in June that all US user traffic would be routed in the US.

WIRED, 8 Sep. 2022 Police said in a news release that southbound lanes of the Palisades Interstate Parkway are closed at exit 2 and all traffic is being diverted to the southbound lanes of Route 9W.

Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 2 Sep. 2022 The span over the Intracoastal Waterway, which has been closed to all traffic since mid-June, will remain inaccessible through Oct. 15, the Florida Department of Transportation announced.

David Lyons, Sun Sentinel, 31 Aug. 2022 All eastbound traffic will be placed in the north lane, or left lane, at the St. Francis River Bridge.

Alexandria Brown, Arkansas Online, 24 Aug. 2022 Some nearby gang members might react and pull out guns, but this rarely happens (and leads to all non-criminal traffic speeding up and driving like madmen in the opposite direction, which is unintentionally hilarious).

Sam Machkovech, Ars Technica, 22 Aug. 2022 All rail traffic along the major rail line that runs past Portland’s Union Station has been halted after a freight train derailed near the west end of the Steel Bridge early Saturday afternoon, a Union Pacific Railroad official said.

oregonlive, 13 Aug. 2022

Verb

Friday afternoon, yellow police tape blocked off Tivoly Avenue to traffic at the rear of the high school, where officers and crime scene technicians were focused on a small parking lot.

Jessica Anderson, Baltimore Sun, 2 Sep. 2022 Soon, Jackson and Scott began using Petrovic to recruit and traffic other minor females, according to prosecutors.

oregonlive, 25 July 2022 Other criminals traffic everything from gold to the prized pirarucu fish, police said.

Luciana Magalhaes, WSJ, 18 June 2022 Stories of hacks of high-profile companies and growing awareness of the fact that some companies traffic their data for a profit have made many consumers think twice about sharing their personal information.

Expert Panel®, Forbes, 13 May 2022 Criminals with systems for smuggling ivory are perfectly positioned to traffic other contraband.

Dean Paton, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Apr. 2022 Their projects often traffic in provocative visuals and effects, sending their viewers down unanticipated rabbit holes, testing people’s limits for farts, warts, and all.

Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 7 Apr. 2022 The indictment accuses Treviño of conspiring to traffic large quantities of marijuana, cocaine and methamphetamine and using firearms — including machine guns — to facilitate those crimes.

Guillermo Contreras, San Antonio Express-News, 16 Mar. 2022 Or, foster kids who get trafficked will be used by the traffickers to traffic their friends.

San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Jan. 2022 See More

Kids Definition

traffic 1 of 2

noun

traf·fic ˈtra-fik How to pronounce traffic (audio)

: the movement (as of vehicles or pedestrians) along a route

: the people or goods carried by train, boat, or airplane or passing along a road, river, or air route

: the business of carrying passengers or goods

the tourist traffic

: the business of buying and selling : commerce

: exchange of information

They had no traffic with the enemy.

traffic

2 of 2

verb

trafficked; trafficking

: trade entry 2 sense 2

Legal Definition

traffic 1 of 2

noun

traf·fic

often attributive

: import and export trade

: the business of bartering or buying and selling

: illegal or disreputable usually commercial activity

the drug traffic

: the movement (as of vehicles or pedestrians) through an area or along a route

: the vehicles, pedestrians, ships, or planes moving along a route

: the information or signals transmitted over a communications system

: the passengers or cargo carried by a transportation system

: the business of transporting passengers or freight

traffic

2 of 2

verb

trafficked; trafficking

intransitive verb

: to carry on traffic

transitive verb

: to travel over

: to engage in the trading or bartering of

traffic 1 of 2

noun

as in commerce

the buying and selling of goods especially on a large scale and between different places they contributed money to an environmental group that works to end the traffic of endangered animals

Synonyms & Similar Words

Relevance

commerce
marketplace
trade
business
dealings
black market
free trade
gray market
merchandising
retailing
wholesaling
e-tail
horse-trading
bartering

traffic

2 of 2

verb

as in to trade

to carry on the business of buying and selling goods or other property arrested him for trafficking in drugs

Synonyms & Similar Words

trade
deal
negotiate
sell
market
retail
exchange
merchandise
smuggle
supply
bargain
transact
purchase
auction
wholesale
swap
buy
barter
merchandize
fence
corner
horse-trade
resell
peddle
bootleg
distribute
invest
vend
take
monopolize
pick up
black-market
speculate
day-trade
engross
fair-trade
rebuy
undersell

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

boycott
black
blackball

Synonym Chooser

Some common synonyms of traffic are business, commerce, industry, and trade. While all these words mean "activity concerned with the supplying and distribution of commodities," traffic applies to the operation and functioning of public carriers of goods and persons.

While the synonyms business and traffic are close in meaning, business may be an inclusive term but specifically designates the activities of those engaged in the purchase or sale of commodities or in related financial transactions.

Both commerce and trade imply the exchange and transportation of commodities.

The words industry and traffic are synonyms, but do differ in nuance. Specifically, industry applies to the producing of commodities, especially by manufacturing or processing, usually on a large scale.

单词	traffic
释义	traffic 1 of 2 noun traf·fic ˈtra-fik often attributive 1 a(1) : the vehicles, pedestrians, ships, or planes moving along a route (2) : congestion of vehicles stuck in traffic (3) : the movement (as of vehicles or pedestrians) through an area or along a route b : the information or signals transmitted over a communications system : messages 2 : the volume of customers visiting a business establishment restaurant traffic 3 a : the passengers or cargo carried by a transportation system b : the business of transporting passengers or freight 4 a : import and export trade b : the business of bartering or buying and selling c : illegal or disreputable usually commercial activity the drug traffic 5 a : communication or dealings especially between individuals or groups b : exchange a lively traffic in ideas F. L. Allen 6 : a concentration of participants or players and especially defensive players force difficult shots in traffic 7 archaic : wares, goods traffic 2 of 2 verb trafficked; trafficking intransitive verb 1 : to carry on traffic 2 : to concentrate one's effort or interest broadly : engage, deal a writer who often traffics in hyperbole transitive verb 1 a : to travel over heavily trafficked highways b : to visit as a customer a highly trafficked bookstore 2 : trade, barter trafficker noun Phrases the traffic will bear : existing conditions will allow or permit charge what the traffic will bear Synonyms Noun business commerce marketplace trade Verb deal trade See all Synonyms & Antonyms Example Sentences Noun Let's leave early to avoid rush hour traffic. Traffic is backed up to the bridge. Barge traffic was halted because of flooding. Airlines saw a decrease in passenger traffic this year. Verb arrested him for trafficking in drugs Recent Examples on the Web Noun If a driver sees a school bus that is stopped on a street or a road with fewer than four lanes, all traffic in both directions must stop. Carol Kovach, cleveland, 13 Sep. 2022 Despite that work, periodic bluff failures occur, such as one Feb. 28, 2021, that briefly halted all rail traffic and periodically delayed trains for months while repairs costing more than $10 million were made. Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Sep. 2022 Though the move failed, TikTok took steps to silo itself from its Chinese owners and announced in June that all US user traffic would be routed in the US. WIRED, 8 Sep. 2022 Police said in a news release that southbound lanes of the Palisades Interstate Parkway are closed at exit 2 and all traffic is being diverted to the southbound lanes of Route 9W. Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 2 Sep. 2022 The span over the Intracoastal Waterway, which has been closed to all traffic since mid-June, will remain inaccessible through Oct. 15, the Florida Department of Transportation announced. David Lyons, Sun Sentinel, 31 Aug. 2022 All eastbound traffic will be placed in the north lane, or left lane, at the St. Francis River Bridge. Alexandria Brown, Arkansas Online, 24 Aug. 2022 Some nearby gang members might react and pull out guns, but this rarely happens (and leads to all non-criminal traffic speeding up and driving like madmen in the opposite direction, which is unintentionally hilarious). Sam Machkovech, Ars Technica, 22 Aug. 2022 All rail traffic along the major rail line that runs past Portland’s Union Station has been halted after a freight train derailed near the west end of the Steel Bridge early Saturday afternoon, a Union Pacific Railroad official said. oregonlive, 13 Aug. 2022 Verb Friday afternoon, yellow police tape blocked off Tivoly Avenue to traffic at the rear of the high school, where officers and crime scene technicians were focused on a small parking lot. Jessica Anderson, Baltimore Sun, 2 Sep. 2022 Soon, Jackson and Scott began using Petrovic to recruit and traffic other minor females, according to prosecutors. oregonlive, 25 July 2022 Other criminals traffic everything from gold to the prized pirarucu fish, police said. Luciana Magalhaes, WSJ, 18 June 2022 Stories of hacks of high-profile companies and growing awareness of the fact that some companies traffic their data for a profit have made many consumers think twice about sharing their personal information. Expert Panel®, Forbes, 13 May 2022 Criminals with systems for smuggling ivory are perfectly positioned to traffic other contraband. Dean Paton, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Apr. 2022 Their projects often traffic in provocative visuals and effects, sending their viewers down unanticipated rabbit holes, testing people’s limits for farts, warts, and all. Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 7 Apr. 2022 The indictment accuses Treviño of conspiring to traffic large quantities of marijuana, cocaine and methamphetamine and using firearms — including machine guns — to facilitate those crimes. Guillermo Contreras, San Antonio Express-News, 16 Mar. 2022 Or, foster kids who get trafficked will be used by the traffickers to traffic their friends. San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Jan. 2022 See More Word History Etymology Noun Middle French trafique, from Old Italian traffico, from trafficare to trade in coastal waters First Known Use Noun 1511, in the meaning defined at sense 1a Verb 1537, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1 Phrases Containing traffic air traffic control pedestrian/foot traffic traffic circle traffic cone the traffic will bear traffic hazard traffic jam traffic court traffic light traffic signal traffic ticket traffic warden foot traffic traffic engineering air traffic controller traffic cop traffic island See More air traffic control pedestrian/foot traffic traffic circle traffic cone the traffic will bear traffic hazard traffic jam traffic court traffic light traffic signal traffic ticket traffic warden foot traffic traffic engineering air traffic controller traffic cop traffic island See More Kids Definition traffic 1 of 2 noun traf·fic ˈtra-fik 1 : the movement (as of vehicles or pedestrians) along a route 2 : the people or goods carried by train, boat, or airplane or passing along a road, river, or air route 3 : the business of carrying passengers or goods the tourist traffic 4 : the business of buying and selling : commerce 5 : exchange of information They had no traffic with the enemy. traffic 2 of 2 verb trafficked; trafficking : trade entry 2 sense 2 Legal Definition traffic 1 of 2 noun traf·fic often attributive 1 a : import and export trade b : the business of bartering or buying and selling c : illegal or disreputable usually commercial activity the drug traffic 2 a : the movement (as of vehicles or pedestrians) through an area or along a route b : the vehicles, pedestrians, ships, or planes moving along a route c : the information or signals transmitted over a communications system 3 a : the passengers or cargo carried by a transportation system b : the business of transporting passengers or freight traffic 2 of 2 verb trafficked; trafficking intransitive verb : to carry on traffic transitive verb 1 : to travel over 2 : to engage in the trading or bartering of traffic 1 of 2 noun as in commerce the buying and selling of goods especially on a large scale and between different places they contributed money to an environmental group that works to end the traffic of endangered animals Synonyms & Similar Words Relevance commerce marketplace trade business dealings black market free trade gray market merchandising retailing wholesaling e-tail horse-trading bartering traffic 2 of 2 verb as in to trade to carry on the business of buying and selling goods or other property arrested him for trafficking in drugs Synonyms & Similar Words trade deal negotiate sell market retail exchange merchandise smuggle supply bargain transact purchase auction wholesale swap buy barter merchandize fence corner horse-trade resell peddle bootleg distribute invest vend take monopolize pick up black-market speculate day-trade engross fair-trade rebuy undersell Antonyms & Near Antonyms boycott black blackball Synonym Chooser Some common synonyms of traffic are business, commerce, industry, and trade. While all these words mean "activity concerned with the supplying and distribution of commodities," traffic applies to the operation and functioning of public carriers of goods and persons. While the synonyms business and traffic are close in meaning, business may be an inclusive term but specifically designates the activities of those engaged in the purchase or sale of commodities or in related financial transactions. Both commerce and trade imply the exchange and transportation of commodities. The words industry and traffic are synonyms, but do differ in nuance. Specifically, industry applies to the producing of commodities, especially by manufacturing or processing, usually on a large scale.
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traffic

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