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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
trafficking
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
drug trafficking/smuggling (=the crime of bringing drugs into a country)
▪ The maximum penalty for drug smuggling was 25 years in jail.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
drug
▪ This new power to presume guilt of unspecified offences was advertised as a unique response to the unique evil of drug trafficking.
▪ The provisions on drug trafficking streamline the confiscation procedure.
▪ The army, where profiteering and corruption was endemic, had profitable interests to protect, especially its involvement in drug trafficking.
▪ Linked to the Mafia he was also behind counterfeit currency scams and drug trafficking.
▪ He also suggested seeking technical and military assistance from abroad to deal with such problems as drug trafficking.
▪ Co-operation on drug trafficking was also discussed.
▪ Coalition slates won the key mayorships of the cities of Medellín and Cali, both centres of drug trafficking.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ In Thailand the penalty for drug trafficking is death.
▪ The two girls were arrested for trafficking in hard drugs.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Coalition slates won the key mayorships of the cities of Medellín and Cali, both centres of drug trafficking.
▪ Drug trafficking is international big business and your money is their profit.
▪ He also suggested seeking technical and military assistance from abroad to deal with such problems as drug trafficking.
▪ Linked to the Mafia he was also behind counterfeit currency scams and drug trafficking.
▪ The Assembly also agreed on closer co-operation on the environment, on regional security and in the fight against drug trafficking.
▪ The problems in fighting trafficking are legion.
▪ The provisions on drug trafficking streamline the confiscation procedure.
▪ This new power to presume guilt of unspecified offences was advertised as a unique response to the unique evil of drug trafficking.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Trafficking

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.

Wiktionary
trafficking

n. 1 (short for human trafficking English) 2 The distribution of illegal drugs 3 the smuggling of illegal arms 4 (context biochemistry English) The movement of an enzyme (or other protein) through tissue vb. (present participle of traffic English)

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]

trafficking

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