traffics

Noun

traffic (usually uncountable, plural traffics)

1. (usually) Moving pedestrians or vehicles, or the flux or passage thereof.
   • The traffic is slow during rush hour.

   Synonyms:

   travel

2. (usually) The commercial transportation or exchange of goods, or the movement of passengers or people.
   • I had three large axes, and abundance of hatchets (for we carried the hatchets for traffic with the Indians).1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC
3. (usually) A flow of customers for a store or restaurant.
   • Sales are down due to a decline in store traffic.
4. (usually) The illegal trade or exchange of goods, often drugs.
   • They, in turn, had long dominated the drug traffic in the area of north-east Afghanistan that they controlled during the Taliban years.2018 January 9, Alfred W. McCoy, “How the heroin trade explains the US-UK failure in Afghanistan”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

   Synonyms:

   trafficking

5. (usually) The exchange or flux of information, messages or data, as in a computer or telephone network.
   • The parish stank of idolatry, abominable rites were practiced in secret, and in all the bounds there was no one had a more evil name for the black traffic than one Alison Sempill, who bode at the Skerburnfoot.1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide
   1. (usually) Of CB radio, formal written messages relayed on behalf of others.

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