traffic

noun

Moving pedestrians or vehicles, or the flux or passage thereof.

The commercial transportation or exchange of goods, or the movement of passengers or people.

The illegal trade or exchange of goods, often drugs.

The exchange or flux of information, messages or data, as in a computer or telephone network.

(advertising) The amount of attention paid to a particular printed page etc., in a publication.

The commodities of the market.

(radio) Of CB radio, formal written messages relayed on behalf of others.

verb

(intransitive) To pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to buy or sell goods.

(intransitive) To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain.

(transitive) To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration.

adjective

(Philippines) Congested.

Roots

trafficaretraffic- · Italian · to trade, carry on commerce

Synonyms for traffic

transportationn dealingsn

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