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Traffic

noun

The aggregation of things (pedestrians or vehicles) coming and going in a particular locality during a specified period of time.

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"

Social or verbal interchange (usually followed by 'with'). Synonym: dealings.

verb

(past & past part. trafficked; pres. part. trafficking)

Deal illegally.

Trade or deal a commodity.

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"Traffic" Quotes from Famous Books

... got back from an expedition to the Sea Islands. She had had her eye on those islands for a long time, she tells me. They lie off the coast of South Carolina, out of the way of all traffic, and they looked to her like a good hunting ground for African folk-lore. Her ethnological field-work is always taking her off to such places. I suppose that that Englishman, Selous, used to go around studying maps, and questioning natives ...

— The Crow's Nest • Clarence Day, Jr.

... laughable than that which occurred in Bristol Courthouse when the terrible Chief Justice upbraided the Bristol magistrates for taking part in a slave-trade of the most odious sort. The mode in which the authorities of the western port carried on their iniquitous traffic deserves commemoration, for no student can understand the history of any period until he has acquainted himself with its prevailing morality. At a time when by the wealth of her merchants and the political influence of her inhabitants Bristol was the second ...

— A Book About Lawyers • John Cordy Jeaffreson

... Hitherto the traffic on the road had passed by Will, like something seen in a picture: he had perhaps exchanged salutations with a tourist, or caught sight of an old gentleman in a travelling cap at a carriage window; but for the most part it had been a mere symbol, which he contemplated ...

— The Merry Men - and Other Tales and Fables • Robert Louis Stevenson

... immediate effect, but ultimately the Provost Corps was purged of the bad element and became a body of experienced men of great value in the prevention or detection of crime and the regulation of military traffic. ...

— The 28th: A Record of War Service in the Australian Imperial Force, 1915-19, Vol. I • Herbert Brayley Collett

... of the amusing comments of "The Fancies," the life of the Military Police was not all beer and skittles. The control of the traffic at some of the cross-roads, favoured by the Boche heavy gunners, was nerve-racking in ordinary times, and tenfold more so during an action, and several awards were given to the Divisional Military Police for gallant conduct ...

— A Short History of the 6th Division - Aug. 1914-March 1919 • Thomas Owen Marden

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