traffic

Meaning

Noun

1. (uncountable, usually) Moving pedestrians or vehicles, or the flux or passage thereof.
2. (uncountable, usually) The commercial transportation or exchange of goods, or the movement of passengers or people.
3. (uncountable, usually) The illegal trade or exchange of goods, often drugs.
4. (uncountable, usually) The exchange or flux of information, messages or data, as in a computer or telephone network.
5. (uncountable, usually) The exchange or flux of information, messages or data, as in a computer or telephone network.
6. (uncountable, usually) The exchange or flux of information, messages or data, as in a computer or telephone network.
7. (uncountable, usually) The commodities of the market.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to buy or sell goods.
2. (intransitive) To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain.
3. (transitive) To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration.

Adj

Congested.

Synonyms

trade

commerce

sell

transportation

deal

movement

business

communication

peddle

transport

transit

dealings

move

trading

transfer

conveyance

trafficking

negotiate

circulation

deal in

traffic volume

intercourse

motion

freightage

frequencies

hawking

highway

interaction

liaison

liquidize

market

merchandise

message

metaphor

monger

moving

navigating

navigation

passing

pitch

portage

reflex

road

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sailing

sale

selling

shipping

slave trade

smilax

smuggling

Translations

traffico

trafic

Verkehr

tráfico

tráfego

verkeer

trânsito

circulation

trafik

tránsito

κίνηση

commerce

κυκλοφορία

Datenverkehr

trafiquer

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈtɹæfɪk/

Etymology

From Middle French trafique, traffique (“traffic”), from Italian traffico (“traffic”) from trafficare (“to carry on trade”). Potentially from Vulgar Latin *trānsfrīcāre (“to rub across”); Klein instead suggests the Italian has ultimate origin in Arabic تَفْرِيق (tafrīq, “distribution, dispersion”), reshaped to match the native prefix tra- (“trans-”).
The adjectival sense is possibly influenced by Tagalog trapik and follows a general trend in Philippine English to construct a noun from an adjective.

Sentences

Taking part in road traffic is potentially dangerous after donating blood .

It was to serve freight traffic of livestock and mining businesses .