Traffic meaning

trăf'ĭk

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

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

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.

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.

noun

Illegal trade or exchange of goods, often drugs.

noun

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

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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