Synonyms:
traffic
Meaning: the aggregation of things (pedestrians or vehicles) coming and going in a particular locality during a specified period of time
Synonyms:
traffic
Meaning: buying and selling; especially illicit trade
Usage examples
You are an English officer, agent of your government, and sent here to suppress this vile traffic?"
Many of the victims of the practice were young children, for the traffic in them was highly profitable.
The story of this traffic in white servants is one of the most striking things in the history of labor.
The ship owners of New England were not far behind their English brethren in pushing this extraordinary traffic.
If ye allow me aught to clothe me, 'twill be of your bounty, and each of you shall traffic with the folk for himself.
During the last ten miles we met no traffic at all, and I was the only passenger left in the bus. Suddenly the vehicle stopped.
He goes, in a condescending amateurish way, into the City, attends meetings of Directors, and has to do with traffic in Shares.
He walked on the other side of the street, and before I could cross over, which was difficult on account of the traffic, Bernard disappeared.
The final extermination of the sailing ship is popularly expected as one of the first developments of the twentieth century in maritime traffic.
Practically, only a big steamer, with the old type of marine-engine, could be a very fast one, and, for ocean traffic at any rate, a smaller vessel must be regarded as out of the running.