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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
traffic
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a driving/parking/traffic offence
▪ Speeding is the most common traffic offence.
a road/traffic accident
▪ The number of traffic accidents has gone down.
▪ Portugal has one of Western Europe’s worst road accident rates.
a traffic count (=of how many vehicles pass through a place)
▪ We went to the main road at 9 am to begin our traffic count.
a traffic hazard
▪ Cars parked in the wrong places can cause a traffic hazard.
a traffic violation
▪ Speeding is one of the most common traffic violations.
air traffic control
air traffic controller
commuter traffic
▪ The new measures are aimed at reducing commuter traffic into the capital.
dodged...traffic
▪ Helen clutched Edward’s arm as they dodged through the traffic.
drug trafficking/smuggling (=the crime of bringing drugs into a country)
▪ The maximum penalty for drug smuggling was 25 years in jail.
Internet traffic (=the number of people using the Internet)
▪ An estimated 40% of the nation’s Internet traffic begins or ends in California.
motorway traffic
▪ the constant noise of motorway traffic
page traffic
stuck in...traffic jam
▪ We were stuck in a traffic jam for two hours.
Traffic calming measures
▪ Traffic calming measures have been introduced.
traffic calming
▪ Traffic calming measures have been introduced.
traffic chaos (=when there are a lot of vehicles on the roads and they cannot move)
▪ The first day of the school holidays brought traffic chaos to the roads.
traffic circle
traffic cone
traffic cop
traffic court
traffic delays
▪ The roadworks are likely to cause serious traffic delays.
traffic island
traffic jam
▪ Sorry we’re late. We got stuck in a traffic jam.
traffic jam
▪ We were stuck in a traffic jam for two hours.
traffic lights
traffic policeBritish English
▪ Traffic police closed the motorway after the accident.
traffic school
traffic warden
traffic/aircraft/engine etc noise
▪ It was peaceful there, with no traffic noise at all.
traffic...diverted
▪ The high street is closed and traffic is being diverted.
traffic...heavy
▪ The traffic going into London was very heavy.
web traffic
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
heavy
▪ Once the cab had left Wandsworth behind it ran into heavy traffic.
▪ Positioning of the meat, produce, bakery, and dairy departments around the store perimeter assures heavy perimeter traffic.
▪ On a day of heavy traffic it could take an hour.
▪ Drive own limo to experience heavy traffic.
▪ I stayed with him in the heavy traffic round the ring road, skirting the city centre and out towards Bingley.
▪ All four lanes were heavy with traffic.
▪ He could hear the rumble of heavy traffic only a few kilometres away.
▪ The physical effort required in speaking would also be less than against a background noise of heavy traffic.
increased
▪ Meanwhile, the development of city centres for business and commercial use is encouraging increased traffic.
▪ The chairman will write to object to the increased traffic that such a scheme would generate in Juniper Green.
▪ More recently, increased air traffic, tightened procedures, and stricter operating limits have made it harder to achieve.
▪ In spite of the vastly increased volume of traffic, fewer people are now killed on our roads than at any time since 1948.
▪ Councillors are concerned the new development will mean increased traffic and are to ask for some sort of restrictions for lorries.
▪ The sharply increased volume of traffic increased the opportunities for profits, but also for crippling losses.
▪ Noise has become one of the great pollutants of modern city life and increased traffic is the greatest culprit.
▪ We face the vastly increased traffic projections for the twenty-first century with roads adequate to deal with the conditions of the nineteenth.
oncoming
▪ This will mean that you have to look only one way for the oncoming traffic.
▪ We came around a bend, and soon found out why the oncoming traffic had stopped.
▪ There was the fork ahead of him, and he slowed for a gap in the oncoming traffic.
▪ He kept fading into the oncoming traffic or blindly passing slower vehicles at the most inopportune moments.
▪ It was left parked next to a bus stop, facing oncoming traffic, with its headlights on.
▪ A centre island had been built to divide the oncoming and ongoing traffic.
■ NOUN
accident
▪ The over-confident driver or motorcyclist may overtake without due caution, thus increasing the risk of causing a road traffic accident.
▪ Their young son had been injured seriously in a terrible traffic accident.
▪ The car, with all its hidden costs in pollution, traffic accidents and congestion, will continue to be more popular.
▪ S., for example, there are 1, 844, 000 alcohol-related traffic accidents a year.
▪ Of those calls, 16 were to road traffic accidents and of that 16 the longest response time was 18 minutes.
▪ And the second story that night was all about a one-car traffic accident, with sketchy details about injuries.
▪ Fifty two people died in traffic accidents in the first eight months of this year on the roads of Merseyside.
air
▪ Controllers were demanding doubled wages, improved conditions, and the creation of an air traffic department independent of the Transport Ministry.
▪ Flight control warned air traffic of a slight change.
▪ We will reduce airport congestion by increasing the capacity of our air traffic control.
▪ When air traffic controllers needed even the simplest pieces of equipment, the procurement process took 9 to 12 months.
▪ They included warning local air traffic control and having hundreds of gallons of water and pumps standing by in case of accident.
▪ Denver said, waiting for air traffic controllers to confirm they could trace his signal.
▪ Additional government spending is particularly important in such areas as advanced wing design, air traffic management systems and low-cost manufacturing.
▪ The center handling air traffic in Washington and Oregon, near Auburn, Wash., was operating on backup power.
cone
▪ Also it should be lit at night and have traffic cones placed in an oblique line on the approach to it.
▪ Motorists wend their way through orange traffic cones and detour signs.
▪ It displayed no owner identification marks and was without benefit of either warning traffic cones or night lights.
congestion
▪ There was traffic congestion when the Milk Race passed through city centre.
▪ Solve rush-hour traffic congestion by making people pay to drive in the peak hours: more toll roads and higher fees.
▪ Time allowed 00:19 Read in studio Cyclists have brought a city centre to a halt in a protest over traffic congestion.
▪ Downed power lines resulted in traffic congestion because of intersections without traffic lights.
▪ The boroughs also express fears that redevelopment will mean worsening traffic congestion and the loss of homes and jobs.
▪ Sure, some motorists still gripe about traffic congestion along the 3. 6-mile line from El Cajon to Santee.
▪ Parking problems and traffic congestion have prompted one local councillor to describe the International Air Tattoo as a shambles.
▪ The motorway, used by sixty five thousand vehicles a day, has done the job of easing traffic congestion elsewhere.
control
▪ Bioplan's scheme for traffic control had been accepted by Durham county council and Darlington council officers.
▪ We will reduce airport congestion by increasing the capacity of our air traffic control.
▪ Air traffic control and other facilities could be shared, Coun Mike Hughes, chairman of Warrington's planning committee, said.
▪ Some of the old hands have got themselves in at the cop stations and traffic control rooms.
▪ I would have needed an air traffic control centre to keep track of where everyone was at any given moment.
▪ The co-operation of air traffic control is central.
▪ It is the international language for air traffic control.
▪ This was not an aircraft taxi-ing down the runway, only to be called back by air traffic control.
controller
▪ They questioned whether air traffic controllers should have over-ruled Captain Fuchs and insisted on him using a remote runway.
▪ Piloting a career at any level without honest feedback is the equivalent of dismissing all the air traffic controllers at the airport.
▪ The personnel include air and ground crews, communications experts and air traffic controllers.
▪ When air traffic controllers needed even the simplest pieces of equipment, the procurement process took 9 to 12 months.
▪ United looked like traffic controllers, directing the flow straight down the arterial routes towards Swindon's goal.
▪ And the air traffic controllers and pilots on board asked for autographs.
▪ Pilots and other flight crew immediately come to mind; so too do maintenance engineers and air traffic controllers.
▪ The pilot had been in regular contact with air traffic controllers but did not report any difficulties.
cop
▪ Sasha says he donates about 100 roubles, or $ 3.50, a day to the traffic cops.
▪ Silicon Valley also is playing a major role in policing the Internet jam, like a traffic cop in downtown San Francisco.
▪ Tell that to Huseyin Ertan, a retired naval officer who is the Bosporus's chief traffic cop.
▪ As the reader might expect, I had my hands full acting like a traffic cop.
drug
▪ He had needed expert searchers for his battle against the drug traffic.
▪ There were casinos, betting parlors, drug traffic.
▪ When drug traffic escalates, they appoint a national drug czar.
flow
▪ If everyone knows and obeys the rules traffic flow and safety at roundabouts is much improved.
▪ Measure O backers say the university-financed roadway improvements are necessary to improve traffic flow, including emergency trips to Stanford medical facilities.
▪ Driver-only buses have become the norm, and may have increased privatised profitability, but they've decreased traffic flow.
▪ Whatever option is picked should allow the maximum unimpeded traffic flow on to and off of city streets.
▪ This may be achieved through better driving habits, improved traffic flow systems and road networks and car pooling.
▪ He checked the traffic flow, watching the lemon-drop headlights approach in pairs.
▪ The diamond rivers of traffic flow inexhaustibly on.
▪ A police officer negligently sent the plaintiff, another police officer, into the tunnel, against the traffic flow.
freight
▪ Finally, in 1940, freight traffic ceased and the track was removed in 1941.
▪ In Arizona, approximately 93 % of the freight traffic and 95 % of the passenger traffic is interstate.
▪ The local Station served the surrounding community and carried a fair amount of passenger and freight traffic.
▪ Until 1987 there were two separate train ferry operations for through freight traffic between Britain and the continent, Dover-Dunkerque and Harwich-Zeebrugge.
▪ This short-sighted analysis by Serpell is shown up most clearly in the section on freight traffic.
▪ On 1 May 1956 this branch finally closed, having been opened to passenger and freight traffic in 1863.
▪ The miners were joined by striking railway workers, who halted freight traffic.
▪ For all sorts of environmental reasons rail should be encouraged to increase its share of freight traffic.
island
▪ The tramway station is now effectively a traffic island, surrounded by a one-way system and linked by pedestrian crossings. 3.
▪ Somehow his Volkswagen had climbed up on to a traffic island.
▪ In Bombay, for instance, every thousand people have only 0.1 hectares of open space - and this includes traffic islands.
▪ We round a couple of buoys beaded with cats' eyes; sea traffic islands.
▪ No one ever walks round a traffic island.
▪ This viewpoint today would come from the middle of a traffic island.
▪ I guided him to the traffic island in the middle.
▪ At second traffic island following sign to Beaumaris.
jam
▪ We don't want bus lanes on motorways and we don't want traffic jams.
▪ Nevertheless, telecommuting is destined to increase, he said, pushed along by snowstorms, traffic jams and technological progress.
▪ Streets around the normally tranquil town of Morton in Marsh were sealed and long traffic jams built up.
▪ I had the same advantage of recklessness as a driver in a traffic jam with a rent-a-car.
▪ There was a long halt, as a traffic jam piled up ahead.
▪ You arrive just in time for a rolling traffic jam in a town crammed with shops, apartments and construction cranes.
▪ Why do we want to watch traffic jams on telly?
▪ Just look at these cabins, and you forget traffic jams, mortgages and mayhem back home.
light
▪ The letters are divided into traffic light colours to signal to customers whether their endowment will pay off their mortgage.
▪ Anger is like a red light at the traffic lights.
▪ Downed power lines resulted in traffic congestion because of intersections without traffic lights.
▪ As I followed him across the road, he roared off-straight through green traffic lights and into the distance.
▪ Cars have been stolen at traffic lights.
▪ Julie didn't answer, but drove on towards the traffic lights, glancing again in the rear-view mirror.
management
▪ On the traffic management front, the county say that the consideration of local traffic needs will have to cover two situations.
▪ Additional government spending is particularly important in such areas as advanced wing design, air traffic management systems and low-cost manufacturing.
▪ Unquestionably, the physical measures and publicity have resulted in considerable success in achieving this most crucial aim of environmental traffic management.
▪ In addition, there are traffic management measures, including red routes, of which the hon. Gentleman is aware.
▪ It will usually be desirable for the landlord to have power to make regulations about traffic management.
▪ Its construction formed part of an overall traffic management programme aimed at getting through traffic flows out of the city centre.
noise
▪ The youngsters learn that there is nothing to fear and, after a time, they also totally ignore the traffic noise.
▪ Win could hear traffic noises, excited air.
▪ It also reduces a certain amount of heat loss, as well as cutting down traffic noise.
▪ Traffic starts to build about six, and so does the traffic noise.
▪ It was incredibly quiet, with distant traffic noise making it seem even quieter.
▪ It must be nearly dawn, for there are more traffic noises breaking into the darkness outside.
▪ There were more traffic noises outside and a thin light came through the window.
passenger
▪ It was suggested that 400 passenger services be withdrawn or modified and 2,000 stations and 5,000 route miles closed to passenger traffic.
▪ In Arizona, approximately 93 % of the freight traffic and 95 % of the passenger traffic is interstate.
▪ There, passenger traffic was light, and was generally regarded as a nuisance.
▪ Bishop's Castle Railway opened for passenger traffic.
▪ By 1919 much of the passenger traffic had moved to rail and road and only cargo steamers were then employed.
▪ The station opened in 1933, designed for continuing growth in passenger traffic.
▪ And the abiding memory of the eighties must be of the greatest achievement, the enormous increase in passenger traffic.
▪ Swindon and Peterborough probably have more commuters going to them than their total everyday passenger traffic in the steam age.
problem
▪ At times, even in the cities, an anthill occupied by a Cobra can be the cause of great traffic problems.
▪ Councillors had feared the nursery might generate traffic problems.
▪ Because of this reduced funding, government strategies for addressing our potential traffic problems had to change.
▪ It causes no widespread congestion or great traffic problems.
▪ A recent major study of traffic problems in the Edinburgh area recognised road safety as a major factor for consideration.
▪ But residents were concerned about the traffic problems and danger from parked cars.
▪ Will there be enough parking provision and will the development cause traffic problems once it is complete?
road
▪ The over-confident driver or motorcyclist may overtake without due caution, thus increasing the risk of causing a road traffic accident.
▪ There was no house in sight; no form of transport; indeed hardly any road traffic.
▪ Panic would result in a rapid encounter with the main road traffic to our rear.
▪ Of those calls, 16 were to road traffic accidents and of that 16 the longest response time was 18 minutes.
▪ The linkages were already in evidence from one point of view: road traffic.
▪ At the beginning of the 20C the sides were raised and in 1950 the bridge was closed to road traffic.
▪ Salop public wanted main road traffic growth increase of 50% since 1979.
warden
▪ A traffic warden, finding an empty car, gave the Vicar a parking ticket.
▪ The traffic warden helped by urging them on.
▪ I called on a conveniently passing traffic warden to help me out.
▪ Back in the car park, I found that an officious traffic warden had decided to make my day.
▪ Four days from the nearest tarmac discourages the average vandal, factory unit or traffic warden.
▪ A traffic warden is at the sharp end of the twentieth century guy.
▪ A moment later they closed the ambulance door, a siren started up and the traffic warden began waving me on.
■ VERB
block
▪ The cars slew to a halt, blocking the traffic.
▪ When they did, traffic got worse; then they blocked it off and traffic improved.
▪ Members of a breakaway group who blocked traffic in University Square the same evening were forcibly dispersed by police.
▪ Some firewalls place a greater emphasis on blocking traffic, and others emphasize permitting traffic.
▪ Protesters hung banners from lamp-posts and forced police to block through traffic.
▪ The activists blocked traffic Saturday along the Tijuana border crossing.
▪ They erected barricades to block traffic, but these were removed following peaceful negotiations with police.
▪ The force of the impact sent concrete dividers into the eastbound lanes, blocking traffic there, too.
carry
▪ This has continued in use to the present day and carries a vast traffic between Oxford and Coventry and Birmingham.
▪ S.-supported facilities carry traffic other than that dedicated to the particular application that justified the link.
▪ One will be for a fast and reliable commuter line across Kent, which could incidentally carry cross-Channel traffic.
▪ Today, all regional providers carry commercial traffic.
▪ Few would deny that the railway is admirably suited to carrying this type of traffic.
▪ Brown envisions Octavia Street as a boulevard to carry traffic over Market Street.
▪ The yard looks busy, but close examination reveals that very few wagons were carrying traffic.
▪ Cable-television companies are racing to re-engineer their systems to carry Internet traffic as well as sitcoms and sports.
direct
▪ Police were directing the traffic, waving traffic on.
▪ Miss Rose pulled on galoshes and spent the noon hour directing traffic.
▪ They direct traffic, investigate thefts and search for illegal weapons at roadblocks.
▪ The midday power outage also caused traffic snarls as police officers directed traffic through intersections whose signals had gone dark.
▪ He had detailed another man to direct the traffic.
▪ Sherron Brown, the minister, directed traffic.
▪ He'd been directing traffic at a census point in Weedon, Northamptonshire.
▪ Flaggers will direct traffic, giving preference to northbound traffic in the morning and southbound in the evening.
divert
▪ Small channels are built to divert some of the traffic to the new route.
handle
▪ The site was revamped two months ago and a new system was installed to enable Tesco to handle increased levels of traffic.
▪ OP-20-G secretly handled naval traffic.
▪ The trains which handled the local traffic took ninety minutes for the journey.
▪ Everyone agrees the road was never meant to handle this kind of traffic.
▪ The center handling air traffic in Washington and Oregon, near Auburn, Wash., was operating on backup power.
▪ It can also handle more types of traffic.
increase
▪ One new shopping centre planned for Budapest would increase traffic in and out the city by an estimated 20,000 cars a day.
▪ In-ad coupons may feature private label products and may be intended to increase store traffic.
▪ The station and office development together will increase the traffic on Euston road during the evening peak hours by 70 percent.
▪ They say it would increase traffic on nearby roads and make them unsafe.
▪ The site was revamped two months ago and a new system was installed to enable Tesco to handle increased levels of traffic.
▪ The council postponed reading of an ordinance to increase traffic fines in Grand Forks until the new council takes office.
▪ It is estimated that its completion alone will increase lorry traffic across frontiers by between 30 and 50 percent.
▪ He added a practical note: the proposals, he pointed out, would undoubtedly increase tourist traffic at the Falls.
reduce
▪ Cycling officers were asked what measures they used to reduce traffic speed and if they had a cycling programme.
▪ Meantime, businesses increasingly are providing employee incentives to reduce traffic.
▪ The Commission calls for higher fuel taxes and vehicle excise duty to be used to reduce traffic growth.
▪ This was planned to reduce traffic volume by 40 percent.
▪ There also is the obvious environmental benefits to biking, since it reduces air pollution and reduces traffic.
▪ We will improve public transport, reduce traffic congestion, and encourage pedestrianisation and cycling schemes.
stick
▪ Slachman's stuck in traffic, but I can just about fit you in.
▪ Then his cab got stuck in traffic, for which I thanked the Lord.
▪ It follows torrential rain yesterday, which flooded roads, and caused chaos as hundreds of commuters were stuck in traffic jams.
▪ When you're stuck in traffic with Libby Purves on radio.
▪ Congestion makes things worse: cars stuck in traffic jams pollute three times as much as those on the open road.
▪ Says he was stuck in traffic.
stop
▪ The liaison officer and local police were on the nearby road, ready to stop the traffic.
▪ While stopped in traffic, practice asking for a raise.
▪ I stop at the traffic light when I have a visual experience which others would describe as seeing a green light.
▪ At First Avenue, we stopped dead in traffic.
▪ The entrances to the path will be protected by bollards and a chicane, to stop any unauthorised traffic.
▪ Police say he was stopped for a traffic violation.
▪ He accepts that Skinnergate should be pedestrianised to stop the traffic chaos.
▪ Luckily, we were stopped at a lengthy traffic light.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
oncoming car/traffic etc
▪ It was left parked next to a bus stop, facing oncoming traffic, with its headlights on.
▪ No oncoming traffic, he said.
▪ The pause became so long that Paula looked anxiously at her passenger, his face illuminated by the headlights of oncoming cars.
▪ The person driving was forced to stop when Glover walked himself and Paul almost into the oncoming car.
▪ There was the fork ahead of him, and he slowed for a gap in the oncoming traffic.
▪ This will mean that you have to look only one way for the oncoming traffic.
▪ We came around a bend, and soon found out why the oncoming traffic had stopped.
speed/traffic humps
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ There's been a lot more traffic around here since they opened the mall.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And the traffic is thick along the Grand Loop, which carves a large figure-eight through the center of the park.
▪ At present, around half of transatlantic telephony traffic is carried via satellite.
▪ Ballymena Division Warden Street, Ballymena - single lane traffic on existing one-way street.
▪ It shows steady increases in accidents with injuries, as traffic volumes mounted.
▪ People are running, roller-blading, dancing in traffic.
▪ The answer to the first problem is obviously to try to do something about your domestic traffic problems.
▪ There had been little traffic so far: mostly long-distance lorries.
II.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
cocaine
▪ Both were later charged with attempted cocaine trafficking.
drug
▪ Most of those arrested were reported to have been previously convicted of drug and arms trafficking and violent crimes.
▪ Santacruz was awaiting trial for illicit enrichment, money laundering and drug trafficking.
▪ He was immediately flown to Florida to face drugs trafficking charges.
▪ Christie and more than two dozen Hells Angels and associates were indicted last week on drug trafficking charges.
▪ As drug trafficking grew, so did the piles of bodies on the outskirts of Rio Branco.
▪ He faces trial on dozens of charges, including money laundering, drug trafficking and masterminding death squad killings.
▪ During 1989 a total of 99 people had been beheaded, many of them for drug trafficking offences.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ By 2015, bitter enmities played themselves out in gang warfare, narcotics traffic, and addiction.
▪ During 1989 a total of 99 people had been beheaded, many of them for drug trafficking offences.
▪ He was immediately flown to Florida to face drugs trafficking charges.
▪ Most of those arrested were reported to have been previously convicted of drug and arms trafficking and violent crimes.
▪ The charges include armed robbery, distribution of stolen property, illegal gun sales and use, and drug trafficking.
▪ Those now being accused of trafficking in stolen property are dismayed.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Traffic

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 to make (see -fy, and cf. G. ["u]bermachen to transmit, send over, e. g., money, wares); or cf. Pg. trasfegar to pour out from one vessel into another, OPg. also, to traffic, perhaps fr. (assumed) LL. vicare to exchange, from L. vicis change (cf. Vicar).]

  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

Traffic \Traf"fic\, v. t. To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration.

Traffic

Traffic \Traf"fic\, n. [Cf. F. trafic, It. traffico, Sp. tr['a]fico, tr['a]fago, Pg. tr['a]fego, LL. traficum, trafica. See Traffic, v.]

  1. Commerce, either by barter or by buying and selling; interchange of goods and commodities; trade.

    A merchant of great traffic through the world.
    --Shak.

    The traffic in honors, places, and pardons.
    --Macaulay.

    Note: This word, like trade, comprehends every species of dealing in the exchange or passing of goods or merchandise from hand to hand for an equivalent, unless the business of relating may be excepted. It signifies appropriately foreign trade, but is not limited to that.

  2. Commodities of the market. [R.]

    You 'll see a draggled damsel From Billingsgate her fishy traffic bear.
    --Gay.

  3. The business done upon a railway, steamboat line, etc., with reference to the number of passengers or the amount of freight carried.

    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.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
traffic

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 "to rub" (see friction), with the original sense of the Italian verb being "touch repeatedly, handle."\n

\nOr the second element may be an unexplained alteration of Latin facere "to make, do." Klein suggests ultimate derivation of the Italian word from Arabic tafriq "distribution." Meaning "people and vehicles coming and going" first recorded 1825. Traffic jam is 1917, ousting earlier traffic block (1895). Traffic circle is from 1938.

traffic

1540s, "to buy and sell," from traffic (n.) and preserving the original commercial sense. Related: Trafficked; trafficking; trafficker. The -k- is inserted to preserve the "k" sound of -c- before a suffix beginning in -i-, -y-, or -e- (compare picnic/picnicking, panic/panicky, shellacshellacked).

Wiktionary
traffic

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 or data, as in a computer or telephone network. 5 Commodities of the market. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To pass goods and commodity from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to buy or sell goods; to barter; to trade. 2 (context intransitive English) To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain. 3 (context transitive English) To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration.

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WordNet
traffic

  1. n. the aggregation of things (pedestrians or vehicles) coming and going in a particular locality during a specified period of time

  2. buying and selling; especially illicit trade

  3. 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"

  4. social or verbal interchange (usually followed by `with') [syn: dealings]

  5. [also: trafficking, trafficked]

traffic

  1. v. deal illegally; "traffic drugs"

  2. trade or deal a commodity; "They trafficked with us for gold"

  3. [also: trafficking, trafficked]

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Wikipedia
Traffic (Traffic album)

Traffic is the second studio album by the English rock band Traffic, released in 1968 on Island Records in the United Kingdom as ILP 981T (mono)/ILPS 9081T (stereo), and United Artists in the United States, as UAS 6676 (stereo). It peaked at number 9 in the UK albums chart and at number 17 on the Billboard 200. It was the last album recorded by the group before their initial breakup.

Traffic (disambiguation)

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:

Traffic (Stereophonics song)

"Traffic" is the fourth single from the rock band Stereophonics, it is taken from their debut album Word Gets Around and was released in October 1997. It reached #20 on the UK Singles Chart.

Traffic (conservation programme)

TRAFFIC is a joint programme of World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and the World Conservation Union (IUCN). Traffic also works in co-operation with the Secretariat of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora ( CITES). The programme was founded in 1976, with headquarters now located in Cambridge, United Kingdom, and regional bases in Africa, Asia, the Americas, Europe and Oceania with national offices within these regions.

Traffic (art exhibition)

Traffic is the title of a group exhibition of contemporary art that took place at CAPC musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, France, through February and March, 1996.

Traffic (2000 film)

Traffic is a 2000 American crime drama film directed by Steven Soderbergh and written by Stephen Gaghan. It explores the illegal drug trade from a number of perspectives: a user, an enforcer, a politician and a trafficker. Their stories are edited together throughout the film, although some of the characters do not meet each other. The film is an adaptation of the British Channel 4 television series Traffik.

20th Century Fox, the original financiers of the film, demanded Harrison Ford play a leading role and that significant changes to the screenplay be made. Soderbergh refused and proposed the script to other major Hollywood studios, but it was rejected because of the three-hour running time and the subject matter—Traffic is more of a political film than most Hollywood productions. USA Films, however, liked the project from the start and offered the film-makers more money than Fox. Soderbergh operated the camera himself and adopted a distinctive cinematography tint for each story so that audiences could tell them apart.

Traffic was critically acclaimed and earned numerous awards, including four Oscars: Best Director for Steven Soderbergh, Best Supporting Actor for Benicio del Toro, Best Adapted Screenplay for Stephen Gaghan and Best Film Editing for Stephen Mirrione. It was also a commercial success with a worldwide box-office revenue total of $207.5 million, well above its estimated $46 million budget.

In 2004, USA Network ran a miniseries—also called Traffic—based on the American film and the earlier British television series.

Traffic

Traffic on roads may consist of pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles, streetcars, buses and other conveyances, either singly or together, while using the public way for purposes of travel. Traffic laws are the laws which govern traffic and regulate vehicles, while rules of the road are both the laws and the informal rules that may have developed over time to facilitate the orderly and timely flow of traffic.

Organized traffic generally has well-established priorities, lanes, right-of-way, and traffic control at intersections.

Traffic is formally organized in many jurisdictions, with marked lanes, junctions, intersections, interchanges, traffic signals, or signs. Traffic is often classified by type: heavy motor vehicle (e.g., car, truck); other vehicle (e.g., moped, bicycle); and pedestrian. Different classes may share speed limits and easement, or may be segregated. Some jurisdictions may have very detailed and complex rules of the road while others rely more on drivers' common sense and willingness to cooperate.

Organization typically produces a better combination of travel safety and efficiency. Events which disrupt the flow and may cause traffic to degenerate into a disorganized mess include: road construction, collisions and debris in the roadway. On particularly busy freeways, a minor disruption may persist in a phenomenon known as traffic waves. A complete breakdown of organization may result in traffic congestion and gridlock. Simulations of organized traffic frequently involve queuing theory, stochastic processes and equations of mathematical physics applied to traffic flow.

Traffic (band)

Traffic was an English rock band, formed in Birmingham in 1967. The group formed in April 1967 by Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi, Chris Wood and Dave Mason. They began as a psychedelic rock group and diversified their sound through the use of instruments such as keyboards like the Mellotron and harpsichord, sitar, and various reed instruments, and by incorporating jazz and improvisational techniques in their music. Their first three singles were " Paper Sun", " Hole in My Shoe", and " Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush".

After disbanding in 1969, during which time Winwood joined Blind Faith, Traffic reunited in 1970 to release the critically acclaimed album John Barleycorn Must Die. The band's line-up varied from this point until they disbanded again in 1975. A partial reunion, with Winwood and Capaldi, took place in 1994.

Traffic was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004.

Traffic (journal)

Traffic is a monthly, peer reviewed, scientific journal, which was established in 2000, and is published by Wiley-Blackwell. The online version is at the Wiley Online Library. This journal is co-edited by Mark C. P. Marsh ( University College London), Michael S. Marks ( University of Pennsylvania), Trina A. Schroer ( Johns Hopkins University), and Tom H. Stevens ( University of Oregon). According to Journal Citation Reports the 2011 impact factor for Traffic is 4.919.

Traffic (Estonian band)

Traffic is an Estonian band from Tallinn, Estonia, most notable for being in Eesti Laul 2014.

Traffic (miniseries)

Traffic: The Miniseries is a three-part feature on the United States cable channel USA Network in 2004 featuring an ensemble cast portraying the complex world of drugs, their distribution, the associated violence, and the wide variety of people whose lives are touched by it all. The mini-series was partially shot in Kamloops, Ashcroft, and Cache Creek, B.C. standing in for Afghanistan.

It was inspired by the 1989 television miniseries Traffik made by Channel 4 in Britain and the 2000 motion picture Traffic directed by Steven Soderbergh.

The American version was nominated for three Emmy Awards. Traffic: The Miniseries was directed by Eric Bross and Stephen Hopkins and written by Ron Hutchinson. The cast is composed of principal actors Cliff Curtis, Martin Donovan, Balthazar Getty, Elias Koteas, Mary McCormack, Ritchie Coster, Nelson Lee, and Tony Musante, while the supporting cast includes Justin Chatwin, Jennifer Rae Westley, Katia Khatchadourian, Johanna Olson, and Brian George.

Traffic (broadcasting)

In broadcasting, traffic is the scheduling of program material, and in particular the advertisements, for the broadcast day. In a commercial radio or TV station there is a vital link between sales (of advertisement or commercial space) and traffic in keeping the information about commercial time availability.

The station sells airtime to its customers. It is not unusual in a single hour for 18–20 minutes to be commercials.

The traffic department together with sales aims to sell the available airtime ("avails") at the best possible rates. The traffic department generates a daily log of programming elements such as commercials, features and public service announcements. The log defines when they are planned to be aired. The log will be used by the on-air operator who actually plays the commercials. A copy of the log after the fact is used for reconciliation to determine what actually aired.

Typically a broadcaster uses a broadcast management software system that allows for automation between departments. Some software systems are end-to-end and manage the whole spectrum of tasks required to broadcast a television or radio station, others specialize in specific areas, such as sales, programming, traffic, or automation for master control.

Traffic (Tiësto song)

"Traffic" is a track single which appeared in the album Just Be and Parade of the Athletes by Dutch DJ Tiësto. The track contains samples of Sean Deason's track "Psykofuk". When the album Just Be was released, his third single " Love Comes Again" was featured with it, "Traffic" turned into a B-side after having great success in Tiësto's concerts and having a music video made which was released in its original form as well as its radio edit version. It is the first instrumental track to reach the top spot in his homeland of the Netherlands in 23 years. Many DJ's did remixes for "Traffic". The track is recorded at 136 BPM.

An official remake by the duo " twoloud" was released on Musical Freedom in December 2013.

Traffic (ABC album)

Traffic is the eighth studio album by English band ABC and their first album of original material released in eleven years. The album's songs were written whilst the band toured the United States in 2006. Critics have described the album as the most 'satisfying ABC album since the mid-'80s by far'.

Drummer David Palmer, who left the band in 1982 after recording The Lexicon of Love, returned to record this album, for which he co-wrote all of the tracks. Gary Langan also returned to mix the album after working as sound engineer on The Lexicon of Love and producing Beauty Stab.

Allmusic described Traffic as 'the album that ABC fans were probably hoping for in 1985' and considered that Fry's 'lyrical mastery was back in place' in the album's songs which showed 'an elegant mix of soul and style'.

Traffic (2011 film)

Traffic is a 2011 Malayalam language Indian thriller film written by brothers Bobby and Sanjay and directed by Rajesh Pillai. The film features an ensemble cast consisting of Sreenivasan, Rahman, Kunchako Boban, Anoop Menon, Vineeth Sreenivasan, Sandhya, Roma, Remya Nambeesan and Asif Ali. The film has its narrative in a hyperlink format. The film opened on 7 January 2011, to a positive reception. It is widely regarded as one of the defining movies of the Malayalam New Wave. A multi-narrative thriller that intertwines multiple stories around one particular incident, Traffic is inspired from an actual event that happened in Chennai. Owing to its critical and commercial success, Traffic was remade into Tamil as Chennaiyil Oru Naal, in Kannada as Crazy Star and is also remade in Hindi, with the same name. This was also the last film of the veteran actor Jose Prakash.

Traffic (2016 film)

Traffic is a 2016 Hindi thriller road movie, directed by Rajesh Pillai. It is a remake of the 2011 Malayalam film of same name. Originally written by brothers Bobby and Sanjay, the film's screenplay has been adapted into Hindi by Suresh Nair, while the dialogues were penned by Piyush Mishra. The cinematography is by Santhosh Thundiyil and music is by Mithoon. The film features an ensemble cast consisting of Manoj Bajpayee, Jimmy Shergill, Prosenjit Chatterjee, Parambrata Chatterjee, Divya Dutta, Amol Parashar and debutant Richa Panai. The film was released on 6 May 2016 to positive reviews.

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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.

I mean, malware is potentially more than a nuisance -- emergency systems, air traffic control, and nuclear reactors all run on vulnerable software.