Traffic - definition, pronunciation, transcription
noun
- buying and selling; especially illicit trade
- the amount of activity over a communication system during a given period of time
traffic on the internet is lightest during the night
verb
Extra examples
Let's leave early to avoid rush hour traffic.
Traffic is backed up to the bridge.
Barge traffic was halted because of flooding.
Airlines saw a decrease in passenger traffic this year.
...arrested him for trafficking in drugs...
The police officer was directing traffic.
There was heavy traffic on the roads.
Traffic was unusually light for that time of day.
He was a thriving man, and trafficked on the seas.
They trafficked with us for cocoanuts and other fruit.
She discovered that he was trafficking with her enemies and tampering with her friends.
The traffic noise kept me awake.
There wasn't much traffic on the roads.
They must have got caught in rush-hour traffic.
We were stuck in heavy traffic (=a large amount of traffic) for more than an hour.
Word forms
I/you/we/they: traffic
he/she/it: traffics
present participle: trafficking
past tense: trafficked
past participle: trafficked
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