Traffic

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Traffic \Traf"fic\, v. t.
     To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a
     consideration.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Traffic \Traf"fic\, n. [Cf. F. trafic, It. traffico, Sp.
     tr['a]fico, tr['a]fago, Pg. tr['a]fego, LL. traficum,
     trafica. See {Traffic}, v.]
     1. Commerce, either by barter or by buying and selling;
        interchange of goods and commodities; trade.
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              A merchant of great traffic through the world.
                                                    --Shak.
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              The traffic in honors, places, and pardons.
                                                    --Macaulay.
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     Note: This word, like trade, comprehends every species of
           dealing in the exchange or passing of goods or
           merchandise from hand to hand for an equivalent, unless
           the business of relating may be excepted. It signifies
           appropriately foreign trade, but is not limited to
           that.
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     2. Commodities of the market. [R.]
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              You 'll see a draggled damsel
              From Billingsgate her fishy traffic bear. --Gay.
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     3. The business done upon a railway, steamboat line, etc.,
        with reference to the number of passengers or the amount
        of freight carried.
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     {Traffic return}, a periodical statement of the receipts for
        goods and passengers, as on a railway line.
  
     {Traffic taker}, a computer of the returns of traffic on a
        railway, steamboat line, etc.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Traffic \Traf"fic\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Trafficked}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Trafficking}.] [F. trafiquer; cf. It. trafficare, Sp.
     traficar, trafagar, Pg. traficar, trafegar, trafeguear, LL.
     traficare; of uncertain origin, perhaps fr. L. trans across,
     over + -ficare to make (see {-fy}, and cf. G. ["u]bermachen
     to transmit, send over, e. g., money, wares); or cf. Pg.
     trasfegar to pour out from one vessel into another, OPg.
     also, to traffic, perhaps fr. (assumed) LL. vicare to
     exchange, from L. vicis change (cf. {Vicar}).]
     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.
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     2. To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  traffic
       n 1: the aggregation of things (pedestrians or vehicles) coming
            and going in a particular locality during a specified
            period of time
       2: buying and selling; especially illicit trade
       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"
       4: social or verbal interchange (usually followed by `with')
          [syn: {dealings}]
       v 1: deal illegally; "traffic drugs"
       2: trade or deal a commodity; "They trafficked with us for
          gold"
       [also: {trafficking}, {trafficked}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  99 Moby Thesaurus words for "traffic":
     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
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  TRAFFIC. Commerce, trade, sale or exchange of merchandise, bills, money and 
  the like.