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Answer for the clue "Business insubstantial, one's seen on the street ", 13 letters:
traffic light

Word definitions for traffic light in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A signalling device positioned at a road intersection or pedestrian crossing to indicate when it may be safe to drive, ride or walk, using a universal colour code. 2 (context philately English) The coloured dots on stamp sheet margins printed with ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Traffic lights , also known as traffic signals , traffic lamps , traffic semaphore , signal lights , stop lights , (in South African English) robots and (in technical parlance) traffic control signals , are signalling devices positioned at road intersections ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a visual signal to control the flow of traffic at intersections [syn: traffic signal , stoplight ]

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Red light \Red light\ an electrically operated set of lights at a road intersection which has different lights visible to traffic from different directions, designed to control vehicle traffic through the intersection. Each set of lights typically has a ...

Usage examples of traffic light.

In Lauderhill, a 21 -year-old security guard said he accidentally shot his friend in the head while their car was stopped at a traffic light.

The street was unfamiliar in the daylight, the traffic light, the pavements cluttered with the flapping canopies and bare tables and detritus of the market winding down.

He lost, and it so enraged him that he followed the other car until it stopped for a traffic light -- where he rammed it from the rear at seventy miles an hour.

As they pulled away from a traffic light, Allen noticed a car parked in a sidestreet.

At one point Bill stopped a little short at a traffic light on Truman Street, and I guess Lex bonked his head back there, because he let out a bubbly shout loud enough to be heard in the cab.

Although there was little traffic this late at night, he nonetheless waited for the traffic light on the corner to change in his favour.

There, while waiting for a traffic light, he glanced in Holly's direction down 15th Street toward her destination on K Street.

They even stopped at a traffic light, with other vehicles around them.

The traffic light changed, the battered little minibus moved forward, and no one paid them any attention at all.

They walked another mile to an intersection with a flashing traffic light.