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traffic
English
Alternative forms
- traffick
Etymology
From Middle French trafique, traffique (“traffic”), from Italian traffico (“traffic”) from trafficare (“to carry on trade”). Potentially from Vulgar Latin *tr?nsfr?c?re (“to rub across”); Klein instead suggests the Italian has ultimate origin in Arabic ????????? (tafr?q, “distribution, dispersion”), reshaped to match the native prefix tra- (“trans-”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: tr?f'?k, IPA(key): /?t?æf?k/
- Rhymes: -æf?k
Noun
traffic (usually uncountable, plural traffics)
- Moving pedestrians or vehicles, or the flux or passage thereof.
- Commercial transportation or exchange of goods, or the movement of passengers or people.
- Illegal trade or exchange of goods, often drugs.
- Exchange or flux of information, messages or data, as in a computer or telephone network.
- In CB radio, formal written messages relayed on behalf of others.
- (advertising) The amount of attention paid to a particular printed page etc. in a publication.
- 1950, Advertising & Selling (volume 43, part 2, page 53)
- Those fixed locations which are sold to advertisers become preferred according to the expected page traffic.
- 1950, Advertising & Selling (volume 43, part 2, page 53)
- Commodities of the market.
- You'll see a draggled damsel / From Billingsgate her fishy traffic bear.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
traffic (third-person singular simple present traffics, present participle trafficking, simple past and past participle trafficked)
- (intransitive) To pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to buy or sell goods
- Synonym: trade
- (intransitive) To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain.
- (transitive) To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration.
Derived terms
- trafficker
- trafficking
Translations
References
- traffic in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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trafficking
English
Etymology
traffic +? -ing.
Verb
trafficking
- present participle of traffic
- present participle of traffick
Noun
trafficking (plural traffickings)
- Clipping of human trafficking.
- Clipping of drug trafficking: the distribution of illegal drugs.
- Clipping of arms trafficking: the smuggling of illegal arms.
- (biochemistry) The movement of an enzyme (or other protein) through tissue.
Derived terms
- drug trafficking
- human trafficking
Translations
trafficking From the web:
- what trafficking means
- what's trafficking human
- trafficking what does it mean
- what is trafficking in persons
- what's child trafficking
- what is trafficking hub
- what human trafficking looks like
- what human trafficking means
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