Definition of traffics Traffics
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What does traffics mean?
Part of speech
🔤WordNet
NounPlural: traffic |
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| traffic - buying and selling; especially illicit trade | ||
| commercialism, mercantilism, commerce an economic system (Europe in 18th century) to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests | ||
| drug traffic, drug trafficking, narcotraffic traffic in illegal drugs | ||
| simony, barratry traffic in ecclesiastical offices or preferments | ||
| traffic - the aggregation of things (pedestrians or vehicles) coming and going in a particular locality during a specified period of time | ||
| aggregation, accumulation, assemblage, collection the act of accumulating | ||
| air traffic traffic created by the movement of aircraft | ||
| commuter traffic traffic created by people going to or returning from work | ||
| foot traffic, pedestrian traffic people coming and going on foot | ||
| traffic - the amount of activity over a communication system during a given period of time; "heavy traffic overloaded the trunk lines"; "traffic on the internet is lightest during the night" | ||
| traffic - social or verbal interchange (usually followed by `with') | ||
| dealings | ||
| give-and-take, reciprocation, interchange alternating back-and-forth movement | ||
Verb |
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| traffic - trade or deal a commodity; "They trafficked with us for gold" | ||
| merchandise, trade exchange or give (something) in exchange for | ||
| commercialism, mercantilism, commerce an economic system (Europe in 18th century) to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests | ||
| traffic - deal illegally; "traffic drugs" | ||
| merchandise, trade exchange or give (something) in exchange for | ||
| criminal offence, criminal offense, law-breaking, crime, offence, offense (criminal law) an act punishable by law; usually considered an evil act; "a long record of crimes" | ||
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Wiktionary 
- traffic (Noun)
Pedestrians or vehicles on roads, or the flux or passage thereof. - traffic (Noun)
Commercial transportation or exchange of goods, or the movement of passengers or people. - traffic (Noun)
Illegal trade or exchange of goods, often drugs. - traffic (Noun)
Exchange or flux of information, messages or data, as in a computer or telephone network. - traffic (Verb)
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. - traffic (Verb)
To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain. - traffic (Verb)
To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- traffic (v. i.)
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. - traffic (v. i.)
To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain. - traffic (v. t.)
To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration. - traffic (v.)
Commerce, either by barter or by buying and selling; interchange of goods and commodities; trade. - traffic (v.)
Commodities of the market. - traffic (v.)
The business done upon a railway, steamboat line, etc., with reference to the number of passengers or the amount of freight carried.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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The movement of vehicles, ships, aircraft, persons, etc., in an area or over a route. -
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The vehicles, persons, etc., moving in an area or over a route. -
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The illegal trade or exchange of goods. -
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To buy and sell goods illegally. -
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To exchange goods.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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traffic
traf′ik, n. commerce: large trade: the business done on a railway, &c.—v.i. to trade: to trade meanly.—v.t. to exchange:—pr.p. traff′icking; pa.t. and pa.p. traff′icked.—n. Traff′icker.—adj. Traff′icless.—n. Traff′ic-man′ager, the manager of the traffic on a railway, &c. [O. Fr. trafique; cf. It. trafficare, prob. from L. trans, across, and Low L. vicāre, to exchange—L. vicis, change; not from facĕre, to make.]
