Noun: traffic tra-fik
- The aggregation of things (pedestrians or vehicles) coming and going in a particular locality during a specified period of time
"The city centre experienced heavy traffic during rush hour"
- Buying and selling; especially illicit trade
"Authorities cracked down on drug traffic in the city"
- The amount of activity over a communication system during a given period of time
"heavy traffic overloaded the trunk lines"; "traffic on the internet is lightest during the night"
- Social or verbal interchange (usually followed by 'with')
"There was heavy traffic between the two offices";
- dealings
Derived forms: traffics, trafficking, trafficked
Type of: accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collection, commerce, commercialism, communicating, communication, give-and-take, interchange, mercantilism, merchandise, merchandize, reciprocation, trade
Encyclopedia: Traffic