Traffic

Noun

 * 1) Pedestrians or vehicles on roads, or the flux or passage thereof.
 * Traffic is slow at rush hour.
 * 1) Commercial transportation or exchange of goods, or the movement of passengers or people.
 * 2) * 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe:
 * I had three large axes, and abundance of hatchets (for we carried the hatchets for traffic with the Indians).
 * 1) *2007, John Darwin, After Tamerlane, Penguin 2008, p. 12:
 * It's units of study are regions or oceans, long-distance trades [...], the traffic of cults and beliefs between cultures and continents.
 * 1) Illegal trade or exchange of goods, often drugs.
 * 2) Exchange or flux of information, messages or data, as in a computer or telephone network.

Derived terms

 * traffic boy


 * traffic jam

Verb

 * 1)  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.
 * 2)  To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain.
 * 3)  To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration.

Adjectives for Traffic
congested; rushing; metropolitan; aerial; dense; heavy; incessant; petty; abominable; ceaseless;  roaring;  terminate;   din-producing; wearisome.

Verbs for Traffic
avert—; check—; choke—; congest—; control—; converge—; direct—; engage in—; escape—; evade—; facilitate—; guide—; hamper—; impede—; jam—; obstruct—; paralyze—; quell—; regulate—; retard—; shun—; speed—; support—; tangle—; — blares; —clogs; —confuses; —converges; —endangers; —flows; —jangles; —jeopardizes; —roars; —surges; —sweeps by; — thunders.

Thesaurus
ESP, answer, balance of trade, bargain, barter, be in, big business, black-market, bootleg, business, business dealings, buy and sell, carry, change, closeness, commerce, commercial affairs, commercial relations, communication, communion, congress, connection, contact, conversation, converse, conveyance, correspondence, custom, deal, deal in, dealing, dealings, do business, exchange, fair trade, familiarity, free trade, freight, give in exchange, handle, horse-trade, industry, information, interaction, interchange, intercommunication, intercommunion, intercourse, interplay, intimacy, job, linguistic intercourse, market, marketing, mercantile business, merchandise, merchantry, message, moonshine, movement, multilateral trade, push, reciprocal trade, relations, relationship, reply, response, restraint of trade, retail, sell, shipping, shove, small business, social intercourse, speaking, speech, speech circuit, speech situation, swap, swap horses, switch, take in exchange, talking, telepathy, the business world, the marketplace, touch, trade, trade in, trade off, trade sight unseen, traffic in, transport, transportation, travel, truck, two-way communication, unilateral trade, wholesale

Etymology
From trafic,  tráfico,  traffico

Pronunciation




Noun

 * Amharic:
 * Arabic: مرور
 * Bosnian:
 * Catalan: tràfic
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: liiklus
 * Finnish: liikenne, lentoliikenne
 * French: ,
 * German: Verkehr, Personenverkehr
 * Hebrew:


 * Hungarian:
 * Ido: trafiko
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 交通 (こうつう, kōtsū)
 * Macedonian: сообраќај
 * Malayalam: ഗതാഗതം (gathaagatham)
 * Norwegian: trafikk, ferdsel
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:,  трафик
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: саобраћај
 * Roman: saobraćaj
 * Spanish: tráfico, tránsito
 * Swedish:, samfärdsel
 * Tamil: திரக்கு (tirakku)


 * Bosnian:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * German: Verkehr, Warenverkehr
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 取引 (とりひき, torihiki)
 * Macedonian:


 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: промет
 * Roman: promet
 * Swedish:


 * Dutch: zwarte handel
 * Finnish: mustapörssi
 * French: ,
 * Hebrew: סחר
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 取引 (とりひき, torihiki)


 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: illegal handel, (about people)


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German: Verkehr, Datenverkehr
 * Hebrew: עומס
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: 交信 (こうしん, kōshin)
 * Macedonian: сообраќај
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian: трафик
 * Swedish:


 * : lalu-lintas
 * : circulation; traffico
 * : 교통 (gyotong)
 * : tráfico
 * : рух (ruχ)

Verb

 * Hebrew: סחר