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   traffic

   /ˈtrafɪk/

   noun

   • 1. vehicles moving on a public highway: "a stream of heavy traffic" Similar vehiclescarstruckslorries
   • ▪ the movement of ships, trains, aircraft, or pedestrians: "Europe's air traffic"
   • ▪ the transportation of goods or passengers: "the increased use of railways for goods traffic" Similar transporttransportationmovement of goods/peoplefreightshippingconveyancing
   • 2. the messages or signals transmitted through a communications system: "data traffic between remote workstations"
   • 3. the action of dealing or trading in something illegal: "the traffic in stolen cattle" Similar tradetradingtraffickingdealingcommercebusinesspeddlingbuying and sellingsmugglingbootleggingmarketblack marketdealingstransactionsnegotiationsproceedings
   • 4. dealings or communication between people. archaic

   verb

   • 1. deal or trade in something illegal: "we must vigorously enforce our laws against those who traffic in drugs"

   Word Origin early 16th century (denoting commercial transportation of merchandise or passengers): from French traffique, Spanish tráfico, or Italian traffico, of unknown origin. Sense 1 dates from the early 19th century.

   Derivatives

   • 1. trafficless adjective

   Scrabble Points: 15

   • T

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   • R

     1

   • A

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   • F

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   • F

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   • I

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   • C

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