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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
trafficker
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a drug trafficker/smuggler (=someone involved in bringing drugs into a country)
▪ US efforts against drug traffickers
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
drug
▪ This creates an offence of assisting a drug trafficker to retain the benefits of his or her proceeds.
▪ Meanwhile in San Diego, a society wife faces ruin when her millionaire husband is arrested as a suspected drug trafficker.
▪ History, economics and geography converged to make this coastline a favored route for international drug traffickers.
▪ Extradition is a terrifying prospect for drug traffickers, who fear hard time in U.S. prisons.
▪ Samper has denied knowing the money came from drug traffickers.
▪ Almaraz said they were drug traffickers from the north and were found with guns and cocaine.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But without any national system, gun traffickers continue to make huge purchases in certain states for sale in illegal markets everywhere.
▪ He said he had met Mounsey in prison and believed they were set up by the same gang of traffickers in Bangkok.
▪ In narcocorridos, the trafficker prevails, and crime pays.
▪ Shorter prison terms would be considered for traffickers who acknowledged their crimes, identified accomplices and turned over their assets.
▪ Some worshipers wear designer jeans and expensive, crocodile-skin boots, the uniform of many traffickers.
▪ The blast came three months after the start of a determined government offensive against the country's cocaine traffickers.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Trafficker

Trafficker \Traf"fick*er\, n. One who traffics, or carries on commerce; a trader; a merchant.

Wiktionary
trafficker

n. Someone who traffics; a trader or merchant.

WordNet
trafficker

n. someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money [syn: seller, marketer, vender, vendor]

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Usage examples of "trafficker".

A 1926 seizure in Hong Kong led to the arrest of a Chinese trafficker whose cabin, when searched, was found to contain a series of telegraph cables to and from a guy in Kobe called Wai Kee.

The cowboy image of the early cocaine trafficker was further enhanced by numerous accounts of close shaves and derring-do.

Here the main offenders had been a marijuana and cocaine trafficker by the name of Juan Ramon Matta Ballesteros and a Mexican friend of his, Felix Gallardo.

Ortega then played Congress a tape recording of Lara apparently thanking the trafficker on the telephone.

Lara revealed that Escobar was in fact a major cocaine trafficker and that he had been a leading light behind the MAS persecutions.

Siegel tells it, at some point in the early 1970s, possibly 1970 itself, an American cocaine trafficker visitedPeruto check up on production.

Marijuana trafficker Alien Long recalled how he was accosted by one of these characters inNew York.

Southern Front forces, he receivedfunds and the use of a C-47 cargo aircraft, as well as another smaller aircraft, which had been donated by narcotics trafficker Jorge Morales.

He held a press conference at which he declared that he was not Roberto Suarez the drug trafficker but an innocent businessman with the same name, that he was a ruthless anticocaine campaigner, that he was innocent of all charges.

So close were the two that Chaves lent this trafficker his house inSanta Cruz, complete with bodyguards and car.

My trafficker friend in Chonchocoro told me that he had bumped into the former president, Luis Garcia Meza, a couple of days before I arrived.

It had been said, for example, that he was a trafficker, that he was operating a violent mafia, that he was in it for the money.

Labelle, a clothing importer and drug trafficker, is former president of the Huns, who are merging with the Outlaws.

Constituent Assembly would issue him a pardon, either as a repentant trafficker, or under the aegis of some armed group.

In his new role as a heroin trafficker, Ruggiero exhibited an uncharacteristic wariness.