traffic
Forms
- Plural
- traffics
- Comparative
- more traffic
- Superlative
- most traffic
- present (v1)
- traffic
- past (v2)
- trafficked
- past participle (v3)
- trafficked
- present participle
- trafficking
- 3rd person singular
- traffics
Definitions
1.Moving pedestrians or vehicles, or the flux or passage thereof.
- The traffic is slow during rush hour.
2.The commercial transportation or exchange of goods, or the movement of passengers or people.
- I had three large axes, and abundance of hatchets (for we carried the hatchets for traffic with the Indians).
- Its units of study are regions or oceans, long-distance trades [..], the traffic of cults and beliefs between cultures and continents.
3.The illegal trade or exchange of goods, often drugs.
- They, in turn, had long dominated the drug traffic in the area of north-east Afghanistan that they controlled during the Taliban years.
4.The exchange or flux of information, messages or data, as in a computer or telephone network.
- Those fixed locations which are sold to advertisers become preferred according to the expected page traffic.
- The parish stank of idolatry, abominable rites were practiced in secret, and in all the bounds there was no one had a more evil name for the black traffic than one Alison Sempill, who bode at the Skerburnfoot.
1.To pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to buy or sell goods.
2.To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain.
3.To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration.
1.Congested.
- It’s super traffic here in Manila.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #1784
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Uncommon
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Etymology
From Middle French trafique, traffique (“traffic”), from Italian traffico (“traffic”) from trafficare (“to carry on trade”). Potentially from Vulgar Latin *trānsfrīcāre (“to rub across”); Klein instead suggests the Italian has ultimate origin in Arabic تَفْرِيق (tafrīq, “distribution, dispersion”), reshaped to match the native prefix tra- (“trans-”).