traffic
n.
movement of vehicles or persons; trade, commerce; load of messages in a communications network (Computers)
v.
deal in, sell (especially illegal drugs)
Traffic
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traffic
Noun
1. the aggregation of things (pedestrians or vehicles) coming and going in a particular locality during a specified period of time
(hypernym) collection, aggregation, accumulation, assemblage
(hyponym) air traffic
2. buying and selling; especially illicit trade
(hypernym) commerce, commercialism, mercantilism
(hyponym) drug traffic, drug trafficking, narcotraffic
3. the amount of activity over a communication system during a given period of time; "heavy traffic overloaded the trunk lines"; "traffic on the internet is lightest during the night"
(hypernym) communication, communicating
4. social or verbal interchange (usually followed by `with')
(synonym) dealings
(hypernym) interchange, reciprocation, give-and-take
(hyponym) relation
Verb
1. deal illegally; "traffic drugs"
(hypernym) trade, merchandise
(classification) crime, law-breaking
2. trade or deal a commodity; "They trafficked with us for gold"
(hypernym) trade, merchandise
(classification) commerce, commercialism, mercantilism
Traffic
(v.)
The business done upon a railway, steamboat line, etc., with reference to the number of passengers or the amount of freight carried.
(v.)
Commodities of the market.
(v.)
Commerce, either by barter or by buying and selling; interchange of goods and commodities; trade.
(v. t.)
To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration.
(v. i.)
To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain.
(v. i.)
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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
traffic
1. The
information moved over a communication
channel. (
188 ) 2. A quantitative measurement of the total messages and their length, expressed in CCS or other units, during a specified period of
time. (
188 )