traffic
Moving pedestrians or vehicles, or the flux or passage thereof.
Example
“The traffic is slow during rush hour.”
Other meanings
The commercial transportation or exchange of goods, or the movement of passengers or people.
The illegal trade or exchange of goods, often drugs.
Related words
- antitraffic
- cybertraffic
- intertraffic
- narcotraffic
- teletraffic
- trafficator
- trafficky
- trafficless
- trafficway
- trafficwise
- advanced traffic management
- air traffic
Word history
From Arabic "تَفْرِيق" (distribution, dispersion).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “traffic” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.