Traffic definition

trăfĭk

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Of or having to do with traffic.

A traffic violation, traffic manager.

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Traffic is defined as vehicles or people in the vehicles, a delay that involves transportation or movement through a designated location.

An example of traffic is people driving in cars.

An example of traffic is a heavy delay in a railroad system.

An example of traffic is how many hits a website gets daily.

noun

The commercial exchange of goods; trade.

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The passage of people or vehicles along routes of transportation.

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Vehicles or pedestrians in transit.

Heavy traffic on the turnpike; stopped oncoming traffic to let the children cross.

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Social or verbal exchange; communication.

Refused further traffic with the estranged friend.

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Illegal or improper commercial activity.

Drug traffic on city streets.

noun

The business of moving passengers and cargo through a transportation system.

noun

The amount of cargo or number of passengers conveyed.

noun

The conveyance of messages or data through a system of communication.

Routers that manage Internet traffic.

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Messages or data conveyed through such a system.

A tremendous amount of telephone traffic on Mother's Day; couldn't download the file due to heavy Internet traffic.

noun

Transportation of goods for trading.

noun

Trading over great distances; commerce.

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The movement or number of automobiles along a street, pedestrians along a sidewalk, ships using a port, etc.

noun

The automobiles, pedestrians, ships, etc. so moving.

noun

To carry on traffic, esp. illegal trade (in a commodity)

verb

To have traffic, trade, or dealings (with someone)

verb

The total volume of cells, blocks, frames, packets, calls, messages, or other units of data carried over a circuit or network, or processed through a switch, router, or other system.

Pedestrians or vehicles on roads, or the flux or passage thereof.

Traffic is slow at rush hour.

noun

Commercial transportation or exchange of goods, or the movement of passengers or people.

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Illegal trade or exchange of goods, often drugs.

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Exchange or flux of information, messages or data, as in a computer or telephone network.

noun

(intransitive) 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.

verb

(intransitive) To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain.

verb

To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration.

verb

To carry on trade or other dealings.

Trafficked in liquidation merchandise; traffic with gangsters.

verb

Buying and selling; barter; trade, sometimes, specif., of a wrong or illegal kind.

Traffic in drugs.

noun

Dealings or business (with someone)

noun

The number of passengers, quantity of freight, etc. carried by a transportation company during a given period.

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The volume of telegrams, calls, etc. transmitted by a communications company during a given period.

noun

The number of potential customers entering a retail store during a given period.

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Origin of traffic

French trafic from Old French trafique from Old Italian traffico from trafficare to trade perhaps from Catalan trafegar to decant from Vulgar Latin trānsfaecāre trāns- trans- faex faec- dregs feces

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
From Middle French trafique (“traffic"), from Italian traffico (“traffic") from Italian trafficare (“to carry on trade"). Potentially from Vulgar Latin *transfricare (“to rub across").

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