Definition of Traffic

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Traffic

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.

To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain.

To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration.

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

Commodities of the market.

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

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Traffic Quotations

The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.
Bill Cosby

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
Margaret Thatcher

Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines.
David Letterman

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.
Eric Hoffer

After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business, and upon everything that you touch in this old world.
Billy Sunday

I am the sworn, eternal and uncompromising enemy of the liquor traffic.
Billy Sunday

I stand on the sidewalk watching it because the responsibility is mine and I must, I take a very firm hold on the handles of the baby carriage and I wheel it into the traffic.
Grace Abbott

Sometimes when I get home at night in Washington I feel as though I had been in a great traffic jam.
Grace Abbott

They were so clever finding ways to get me the ball. They had to do more than just give up open shots. They had to avoid fouls and pass me the ball in traffic.
Wilt Chamberlain

In Japan, they have TV sets in cars right now, where you can punch up traffic routes, weather, everything! You can get Internet access already in cars in Japan, so within the next 2 to 3 years it's gonna be so crazy!
Glenn Danzig

Traffic Translations

traffic in Afrikaans is verkeer
traffic in Danish is trafik
traffic in Dutch is circulatie, roulatie, omloop
traffic in Finnish is liikenne
traffic in French is trafic, circulation, relation
traffic in German is Verkehr, Verkehr {m}, Autoverkehr {m}
traffic in Italian is traffico
traffic in Norwegian is trafikk
traffic in Swedish is trafik

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