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Meaning of 'traffic' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Traffic [ v.]
- Commerce, either by barter or by buying and selling; interchange of goods and commodities; trade.
- Commodities of the market.
- The business done upon a railway, steamboat line, etc., with reference to the number of passengers or the amount of freight carried.
2 . 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.
- To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain.
3 . Traffic [ v. t.]
- To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration.

Meaning of 'traffic' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . traffic [ n]
Meaning (1):
- the amount of activity over a communication system during a given period of time
Example in sentence:
  • heavy traffic overloaded the trunk lines;
  • traffic on the internet is lightest during the night
2 . traffic [ v]
Meaning (2):
- trade or deal a commodity
Example in sentence:
  • They trafficked with us for gold
Meaning (3):
- deal illegally
Example in sentence:
  • traffic drugs

Nearby Words:

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