Traffic

What “Traffic” means

Noun

1. Moving pedestrians or vehicles, or the flux or passage thereof.
2. The commercial transportation or exchange of goods, or the movement of passengers or people.
3. A flow of customers for a store or restaurant.
4. The illegal trade or exchange of goods, often drugs.
5. The exchange or flux of information, messages or data, as in a computer or telephone network.

Verb

1. To pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to buy or sell goods.
2. To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain.
3. To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration.

Adj

1. Congested.

Where the word comes from

From Middle French trafique, traffique (“traffic”), from Italian traffico (“traffic”) from trafficare (“to carry on trade”). Potentially from Vulgar Latin *trānsfrīcāre (“to rub across”); Klein instead suggests the Italian has ultimate origin in Arabic تَفْرِيق (tafrīq, “distribution, dispersion”), reshaped to match the native prefix tra- (“trans-”). The adjectival sense is possibly influenced by Tagalog trapik and follows a general trend in Philippine English to construct a noun from an adjective.

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Industries where “Traffic” fits

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• Air Traffic Control