Traffic /(?)/

Traf·fic

Traffic

v. i.

imp. & p. p. Trafficked; p. pr. & vb. n. Trafficking

  1. To pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to buy or sell goods; to barter; to trade.
  2. To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain.

Traffic

v. t.
  1. To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration.

Traffic

n.
  1. Commerce, either by barter or by buying and selling; interchange of goods and commodities; trade.
    A merchant of great traffic through the world.
    The traffic in honors, places, and pardons.
  2. Commodities of the market. [R.]
    You 'll see a draggled damsel From Billingsgate her fishy traffic bear.
  3. The business done upon a railway, steamboat line, etc., with reference to the number of passengers or the amount of freight carried.

Phrases & Compounds
Traffic return
a periodical statement of the receipts for goods and passengers, as on a railway line.
Traffic taker
a computer of the returns of traffic on a railway, steamboat line, etc.