Sekirov Dictionary

traffic

/ˈtɹæfɪk/

noun 8
verb 3
adjective 1
forms 7
phrases 1

noun8

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the vehicles and people moving along roads and streets
- The traffic is slow during rush hour.
•
A flow of customers for a store or restaurant.
- Sales are down due to a decline in store traffic.
The exchange or flux of information, messages or data, as in a computer or telephone network.
Of CB radio, formal written messages relayed on behalf of others.
•
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). — 1719
•
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. — 2018
•
The amount of attention paid to a particular printed page etc., in a publication.
- Those fixed locations which are sold to advertisers become preferred according to the expected page traffic. — 1950
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The commodities of the market.
- You'll see a draggled damsel / From Billingsgate her fishy traffic bear. — 1716

verb3

To pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to buy or sell goods.
To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration.
To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain.

adjective1

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(Philippines) Congested.
- It’s super traffic here in Manila.

forms

trafficked · trafficking · trafficketh · traffics · traffickest · more traffic · most traffic

Phrases with traffic

go play in the traffic
To go elsewhere and feel free to engage in risky behavior; to get lost.

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