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Movement of vehicles
Answer for the clue "Movement of vehicles ", 7 letters:
traffic
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Word definitions for traffic in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Traffic \Traf"fic\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Trafficked ; p. pr. & vb. n. Trafficking .] [F. trafiquer; cf. It. trafficare, Sp. traficar, trafagar, Pg. traficar, trafegar, trafeguear, LL. traficare; of uncertain origin, perhaps fr. L. trans across, over + -ficare ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 pedestrian or vehicles on roads, or the flux or passage thereof. 2 commercial transportation or exchange of goods, or the movement of passengers or people. 3 illegal trade or exchange of goods, often drugs. 4 Exchange or flux of information, messages ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Traffic is the flux or passage of motorized vehicles, unmotorized vehicles, and pedestrians on roads; or the commercial transport and exchange of goods; or the movement of passengers or people. Traffic or trafficking may also refer to:
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1500, "trade, commerce," from Middle French trafique (15c.), from Italian traffico (14c.), from trafficare "carry on trade," of uncertain origin, perhaps from a Vulgar Latin *transfricare "to rub across," from Latin trans- "across" (see trans- ) + fricare ...
Usage examples of traffic.
The counsel for the appellee would limit it to traffic, to buying and selling, or the interchange of commodities, and do not admit that it comprehends navigation.
I-45 the traffic started moving again, and they passed the Astrodome before Guterson took the Stella Link exit.
But she abandons the autorickshaw at the end of Sisganj Road and pushes through the clogged traffic the final half-kilometer to Manmohan Singh Buildings.
I heard the buzz of traffic speeding past on the autoroute, and realized that we were out of sight I struggled with the door catch, but the car had warped enough to jam the door.
Danish barkentine that sank in a storm in the early twenties, blocking the harbor, paralyzing shipping traffic for months.
Stilwell, every single man mixed up with the traffic stop-Randy, Barth and the Doolittles-had been prepared to let him.
A young, very wet traffic warden, the yellow band round her hat extremely new, was standing beside the Lancia, trying bravely to write down something on a bedrenched page of her notebook.
Guessgate, which served three villages but no town, was a small wayside station with a fairly heavy goods business but little passenger traffic, so that when Brat climbed down from his carriage there was no one on the platform but a fat countrywoman, a sweating porter, the ticket-collector, and Eleanor.
She called the traffic tower to ask for another landing slot, preferably nearer the brawn barracks.
Halfway along Lower Parliament Street a corporation bus driver had ploughed into the back of a Burger King delivery truck and the consequent brouhaha had blocked the traffic both ways from the Theatre Royal to the Albert Hall and Institute.
And all the blissful while The schoolboy satchel at your hip Was such a bulse of gems as should amaze Grey-whiskered chapmen drawn From over Caspian: yea, the Chief Jewellers Of Tartary and the bazaars, Seething with traffic, of enormous Ind.
Now this latest milestone: Eight current or former Miami policemen busted in the past week for a smorgasbord of drug crimes, including the ever-popular trafficking of cocaine.
Occasionally headlamp beams from traffic on the expressway swept through the foliage, but the sound of the engines was lost in the wind.
There were knots of half-grown men on the corners of the street and about the adjacent pot-houses who were driving a good traffic in tickets, and other knots of creatures, neither men nor boys, but that New York intermedium, who has lost the honesty of the boy without gaining the manliness of the man, were speculating upon the probabilities of a fight, and expressing very decided opinions as to the possibility of licking the Frenchmen who would endeavor to keep them out or keep them orderly after they got in.
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