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 Definitions of Traffic  [ˈtræf ɪk]  

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Definition of 'Traffic' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) traffic
the movement of vehicles, ships, aircraft, persons, etc., in an area or over a route.

2.  traffic
the vehicles, persons, etc., moving in an area or over a route.

3.  traffic
the transportation of goods for the purpose of trade, by sea, land, or air:
ships of traffic.

4.  traffic
trade; buying and selling; commercial dealings.

5.  traffic
trade between different countries or places; commerce.

6.  traffic
the business done by a railroad or other carrier in the transportation of freight or passengers.

7.  traffic
the aggregate of freight, passengers, telephone or telegraph messages, etc., handled, esp. in a given period.

8.  traffic
communication, dealings, or contact between persons or groups.

9.  traffic
mutual exchange or communication:
traffic in ideas.

10.  traffic
trade in some specific commodity or service, often of an illegal nature:
drug traffic.

11. (v.i.) traffic
to carry on traffic, trade, or commercial dealings.

12.  traffic
to trade or deal in a specific commodity or service, often of an illegal nature (usu. fol. by in):
to traffic in opium.

Etymology:  (1495–1505; earlier traffyk < MF trafique (n.), trafiquer (v.) < It traffico (n.), trafficare (v.))

Definition of 'Traffic' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) traffic
the aggregation of things (pedestrians or vehicles) coming and going in a particular locality during a specified period of time

2. (noun) traffic
buying and selling; especially illicit trade

3. (noun) 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"

4. (verb) dealings, traffic
social or verbal interchange (usually followed by `with')

5. (verb) traffic
deal illegally
"traffic drugs"

6. (verb) traffic
trade or deal a commodity
"They trafficked with us for gold"


Definition of 'Traffic' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (noun) traffic
all the vehicles using the roads in an area
heavy traffic; traffic information

2.  traffic
all transportation from one place to another
air traffic

3.  traffic
the illegal buying and selling of goods or weapons
illicit traffic in narcotic drugs

4.  traffic
the transfer of information by electronic means
online traffic


Definition of 'Traffic' Webster Dictionary 

1.  Traffic
commerce, either by barter or by buying and selling; interchange of goods and commodities; trade

2.  Traffic
commodities of the market

3.  Traffic
the business done upon a railway, steamboat line, etc., with reference to the number of passengers or the amount of freight carried

4. (verb) Traffic
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

5. (verb) Traffic
to trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain

6. (verb) Traffic
to exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration


Translation of 'Traffic' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: vehicles, aircraft, ships etc moving about
There's a lot of traffic on the roads / on the river.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: verkeer Arabic flag Arabic: حَرَكة مُرور Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: движение
Brazilian flag Brazilian: trânsito Czech flag Czech: dopravní ruch German flag German: der Verkehr
Danish flag Danish: trafik Greek flag Greek: κυκλοφορία, κίνηση Spanish flag Spanish: tráfico
Estonian flag Estonian: liiklus Farsi flag Farsi: عبور و مرور Finnish flag Finnish: liikenne
French flag French: circulation, trafic Hebrew flag Hebrew: תְנוּעָה, תַעֲבוּרָה Hindi flag Hindi: परिवहन
Croatian flag Croatian: promet Hungarian flag Hungarian: forgalom Indonesian flag Indonesian: lalu-lintas
Icelandic flag Icelandic: umferð Italian flag Italian: traffico Japanese flag Japanese: 交通
Korean flag Korean: 교통 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: eismas, judėjimas Latvian flag Latvian: transports; satiksme
Malay flag Malay: lalu lintas Dutch flag Dutch: verkeer Norwegian flag Norwegian: trafikk, ferdsel
Polish flag Polish: ruch Persian flag Persian: عبور و مرور Pashto flag Pashto: تیریدل راتیریدل
Portuguese flag Portuguese: trânsito Romanian flag Romanian: circulaţie, trafic Russian flag Russian: движение, транспорт
Slovak flag Slovak: dopravný ruch Slovenian flag Slovenian: promet Serbian flag Serbian: saobraćaj
Swedish flag Swedish: trafik Thai flag Thai: การจราจร Turkish flag Turkish: trafik
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 交通 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: транспорт; рух Urdu flag Urdu: گاڑيوں کي نقل و حرکت
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: phương tiện Chinese flag Chinese: 交通

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