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sex-trafficking

sex-trafficking is the simple past and past participle of sex-traffic.

Meaning of sex-traffic

Verb

sex-traffic (third-person singular simple present sex-traffics, present participle sex-trafficking, simple past and past participle sex-trafficked)

  1. (transitive, uncommon) To illegally transport a person from one nation or area to another for the purpose of sexual exploitation.

Noun

sex-trafficking (uncountable)

  1. The practice of trafficking people for the purpose of sexual exploitation.
    • Epstein, the deceased financier, sex offender and friend to the rich and famous, has been at the heart of a sprawling conspiracy theory about child sex-trafficking and the global elite since he killed himself in jail six years ago — a suicide that was reaffirmed by the FBI this month.2025 July 10, Jesus Mesa, “'We've Been Played': MAGA Faces Its Own Disappointment With Trump”, in Newsweek

Questions about sex-trafficking

What does sex-trafficking mean?
Sex-trafficking means the practice of trafficking people for the purpose of sexual exploitation.
What is sex-trafficking the simple past and past participle of?
Sex-trafficking is the simple past and past participle of sex-traffic.
What part of speech is sex-trafficking?
Sex-trafficking is a noun.

Words near sex-trafficking in the dictionary

  1. sex-texted
  2. sex-texting
  3. sex-texts
  4. sex-traffic
  5. sex-trafficked
  6. sex-trafficking
  7. sex-traffics
  8. sex0r
  9. sex0red
  10. sex0ring
  11. sex0rs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sex-trafficking (page history and authors); sex-traffic (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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