Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈtɹæfɪk/
traffic (uncountable)
- Pedestrians or vehicles on roads, or the flux or passage thereof.
- The traffic is slow during rush hour.
- 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.
- Commodities of the market.
- You'll see a draggled damsel / From Billingsgate her fishy traffic bear.
- French: circulation, trafic
- German: Verkehr, Personenverkehr
- Italian: traffico, viabilità
- Portuguese: tráfego, trânsito
- Russian: движе́ние
- Spanish: tráfico, tránsito (Latin America), circulación
- German: Verkehr, Warenverkehr
- Italian: traffico
- Portuguese: tráfego
- Russian: торго́вля
traffic (traffics, present participle trafficking; 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
- Synonyms: trade
- (intransitive) To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain.
- (transitive) To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration.
- Spanish: traficar
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