'Traffic' definitions:

Definition of 'traffic'

From: WordNet
noun
The aggregation of things (pedestrians or vehicles) coming and going in a particular locality during a specified period of time
noun
Buying and selling; especially illicit trade
noun
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"
noun
Social or verbal interchange (usually followed by `with') [syn: dealings, traffic]
verb
Deal illegally; "traffic drugs"
verb
Trade or deal a commodity; "They trafficked with us for gold"

Definition of 'Traffic'

From: GCIDE
  • Traffic \Traf"fic\, v. t. To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Traffic'

From: GCIDE
  • Traffic \Traf"fic\, n. [Cf. F. trafic, It. traffico, Sp. tr['a]fico, tr['a]fago, Pg. tr['a]fego, LL. traficum, trafica. See Traffic, v.]
  • 1. Commerce, either by barter or by buying and selling; interchange of goods and commodities; trade. [1913 Webster]
  • A merchant of great traffic through the world. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • The traffic in honors, places, and pardons. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
  • Note: This word, like trade, comprehends every species of dealing in the exchange or passing of goods or merchandise from hand to hand for an equivalent, unless the business of relating may be excepted. It signifies appropriately foreign trade, but is not limited to that. [1913 Webster] [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Commodities of the market. [R.] [1913 Webster]
  • You 'll see a draggled damsel From Billingsgate her fishy traffic bear. --Gay. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. The business done upon a railway, steamboat line, etc., with reference to the number of passengers or the amount of freight carried. [1913 Webster]
  • Traffic return, a periodical statement of the receipts for goods and passengers, as on a railway line.
  • Traffic taker, a computer of the returns of traffic on a railway, steamboat line, etc. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Traffic'

From: GCIDE
  • Traffic \Traf"fic\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Trafficked; p. pr. & vb. n. Trafficking.] [F. trafiquer; cf. It. trafficare, Sp. traficar, trafagar, Pg. traficar, trafegar, trafeguear, LL. traficare; of uncertain origin, perhaps fr. L. trans across, over + -ficare to make (see -fy, and cf. G. ["u]bermachen to transmit, send over, e. g., money, wares); or cf. Pg. trasfegar to pour out from one vessel into another, OPg. also, to traffic, perhaps fr. (assumed) LL. vicare to exchange, from L. vicis change (cf. Vicar).]
  • 1. 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'traffic'

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Words containing 'Traffic'