Traffic meaning
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
Social or verbal exchange; communication.
Refused further traffic with the estranged friend.
noun
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
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The number of passengers, quantity of freight, etc. carried by a transportation company during a given period.
noun
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.
noun
Of or having to do with traffic.
A traffic violation, traffic manager.
adjective
To carry on traffic, esp. illegal trade (in a commodity)
verb
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To have traffic, trade, or dealings (with someone)
verb
Data transmitted over a network. Traffic is a very general term and typically refers to overall network usage at a given moment. However, it can refer to specific transactions, messages, records or users in any kind of data or telephone network. See PPS.
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.
Traffic is slow at rush hour.
noun
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(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
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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
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