traffic

Meaning

Noun

1. Moving pedestrians or vehicles, or the flux or passage thereof.
2. Commercial transportation or exchange of goods, or the movement of passengers or people.
3. Illegal trade or exchange of goods, often drugs.
4. Exchange or flux of information, messages or data, as in a computer or telephone network.
5. Exchange or flux of information, messages or data, as in a computer or telephone network.
6. Exchange or flux of information, messages or data, as in a computer or telephone network.
7. Commodities of the market.

Verb

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

Adj

congested

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 adjective sense is possibly influenced by Tagalog trapik and follows a general trend in Philippine English to make nouns adjectives.

Sentences

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