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noun

Traffic n.

Commerce, either by barter or by buying and selling; interchange of goods and commodities; trade. "A merchant of great traffic through the world." "The traffic in honors, places, and pardons." Note: This word, like trade, comprehends every species of dealing in the exchange or passing of goods or merchandise from hand to hand for an equivalent, unless the business of relating may be excepted. It signifies appropriately foreign trade, but is not limited to that.

Commodities of the market. (R.) "You 'll see a draggled damsel From Billingsgate her fishy traffic bear."

The business done upon a railway, steamboat line, etc., with reference to the number of passengers or the amount of freight carried.

Traffic return, a periodical statement of the receipts for goods and passengers, as on a railway line.

Traffic taker, a computer of the returns of traffic on a railway, steamboat line, etc.

verb

Traffic v. t. (past & past part. trafficked; pres. part. trafficking) To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration.

Traffic v. i. (past & past part. trafficked; pres. part. trafficking)

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.

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Etymology of 'Traffic'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Traffic" Quotes from Famous Books

... ice blink. But as you watch there appears and disappears a little dark smudge. This puzzles you for some time, and then you realize that this is the mirage of some far mountain or of Beaufort Island, which guards the mouth of McMurdo Sound against such traffic as ever comes that way, by piling up the ...

— The Worst Journey in the World, Volumes 1 and 2 - Antarctic 1910-1913 • Apsley Cherry-Garrard

... the mainline at Denver over to Bear Forks. In either case, it will cost a mint to build and run such a railway because of the long tunnels that will have to be cut through the mountains, and the lack of other traffic over ...

— Polly and Eleanor • Lillian Elizabeth Roy

... balanced; if he write for some small conclave, which he mistakenly thinks the representative of England, they may sway this way or that, as it chances. But writing in such isolated spirit is no longer possible. Traffic, with its swift ships, is uniting all nations into one; Europe at large is becoming more and more one public; and in this public, the voices for Goethe, compared with those against him, are in the proportion, ...

— Autobiography • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

... smiled. "From upper New York we can drive right onto the State Road that runs direct to Albany. By selecting that way we will save a great deal of time, because traffic in the city is so congested that every driver has to travel slow and fall in line back of endless cars. At every corner when the signal holds up the entire line one has to stop to permit crosstown traffic ...

— Girl Scouts in the Adirondacks • Lillian Elizabeth Roy

... again—and silent. There was no sound, save the gentle lap of water against the pier, and the distant, muffled murmur of traffic from one of the great bridges that spanned the river. Jimmie Dale's automatic was in his hand. There was one man who stood between the woman whom he loved and her happiness, one man, who had driven her from her home and by every foul art and craft had ...

— The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale • Frank L. Packard

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