Word Finder - traffic

definition

Pedestrians or vehicles on roads, or the flux or passage thereof.

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The traffic is slow during rush hour.

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Commercial transportation or exchange of goods, or the movement of passengers or people.

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Illegal trade or exchange of goods, often drugs.

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Exchange or flux of information, messages or data, as in a computer or telephone network.

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Commodities of the market.

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To pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to buy or sell goods

synonyms

• trade

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To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain.

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

In town doing traffic control, I guess.

The traffic was the pits.

The traffic to get there is not bad.

It would be nice getting away from the smog and traffic for a while.

Even on this holiday, one of the busiest days of the year, traffic remained modest by urban standards.

Why are there fewer traffic jams in one certain city than in any other of its size?

Dean planned to spend his free time biking, but changed his mind when he saw the crowds in town and remembered the traffic that would clog the narrow roads.

Owing to the rapid increase in the traffic, a new harbour at the mouth of the Neckar was opened in 1898.

The car started up, and they merged into traffic.

Stavanger commands a considerable tourist traffic. It is the starting-point of a favourite tour, embracing the fine valley of the Sand River, the great Lake Suldal and the Bratlandsdal.

She wasn't the only one who stopped traffic and conversations.

Traffic was light—nonexistent by eastern standards—made up mostly of Jeeps or pickup trucks, the latter with a dog pacing the back bed in perfect balance.

Traffic was light and Molly kept us entertained with her chatter.

He covered one ear to mute the passing traffic.

Driving was out of the question as the mid-morning parade, scheduled to begin in a few minutes, was forming on Main Street, which was now closed to traffic.

The maritime traffic is largely conducted by the steamers of the subsidized Austrian-Lloyd company, Trieste being the principal commercial centre; the coasting trade is carried on by small Greek and Turkish sailing vessels.

His route to Philly looked like a drunkard's path, zigzagging a series of country roads that were at times crowded with local traffic.

By the time Dean had finished his meal, the traffic had thinned out, making the balance of the trip northward much more pleasant.

In the rural areas, there was less concern with traffic, although an occasional farm dog forced him to practice his sprints.

Water traffic, which is chiefly in heavy merchandise, as coal, building materials, and agriculture and food produce, more than doubled in volume between 1881 and 1905.

Water traffic on the Euphrates and canals was early very considerable.

The registry of the citizens, the suppression of litigation, the elevation of public morals, the care of minors, the retrenchment of public expenses, the limitation of gladiatorial games and shows, the care of roads, the restoration of senatorial privileges, the appointment of none but worthy magistrates, even the regulation of street traffic, these and numberless other duties so completely absorbed his attention that, in spite of indifferent health, they often kept him at severe labour from early morning till long after midnight.

As the cost of the service varies in proportion to the amount of use, the toll rate is more scientific, and it has the further advantage of discouraging the unnecessary use of the instrument, which causes congestion of traffic at busy hours and also results in lines being " engaged " when serious business calls are made.

There are now four circuits between London and Paris, one between London and Lille, and two between Londofi and Brussels, the last carrying an increasing amount of traffic. Experiments have been made in telephonic communication between London and Rome by way of Paris.

The insufficiency of rolling stock, and especially of goods wagons, is mainly caused by delays in handling traffic consequent on this or other causes, among which may be mentioned the great length ofthe single lines south of Rome.

With France there is a large traffic in wines, spirits, silk, fruit, vegetables and general provisions.

But as traffic becomes more dense, year by year, the rebuilding process is constant, and American railway lines are gradually becoming safer.

When the Dogger Bank incident occurred, the possibility of operations of war being carried on within a few miles of British home ports, and amid the busy traffic of the North Sea, was brought vividly home to British minds.

There is also a considerable passenger traffic on the Arkansas.

For road-mending flint, though very hard, is not regarded with favour, as it is brittle and pulverizes readily; binds badly, yielding a surface which breaks up with heavy traffic and in bad weather; and its fine sharp-edged chips do much damage to tires of motors and cycles.

It had besides long been thought desirable to possess a station on the route between Australia and Panama; it was also felt that the Polynesian labour traffic, the abuses in which had caused much indignation, could only be effectually regulated from a point contiguous to the recruiting field, and the locality where that labour was extensively employed.

They carry on an extensive traffic with the wild tribes of the neighbouring mountains.

The total gross receipts from all sources of traffic in 1905 were £4, 0 43,3 68, of which £2,104,108 was derived from passenger traffic and £1,798,520 from goods traffic. The total number of passengers carried (exclusive of season and periodical ticketholders) was 27,950,150.

The enormous profits of the contraband trade with France enabled Ireland to purchase English goods to an extent greater than her whole lawful traffic. The moral effect was disastrous.

The railways, which are all owned and managed by the Hungarian state, intersect most parts of the country except the mountains south of Ogulin, where there is, nevertheless, a considerable traffic over the passes into Dalmatia and Bosnia.

Above Agram the Save is used chiefly for floating rafts of timber; east of Sissek it is navigable by small steamboats, but, despite its great volume, the multitude of its perpetually shifting sandbanks interferes greatly with traffic. Steamers also ply on the Una, the Drave below Barcs, and the Danube.

The whole traffic of these stations is to be directed into a vast central station (the largest in the world), lying on the sites of the Dresden, Magdeburg and Thuringian stations.

The canal was opened for traffic on the 1st of October 1898.

From 1847 to 1860 an average of 203 British ships entered the Danube averaging 193 tons each; from 1861 to 1889, 486 ships averaging 7 9 6 tons; in 18 93, 905 vessels of 1,287,762 tons, or 68% of the total traffic, and rather.

Under powers obtained from parliament in 1896, the Midland Railway Company constructed, and opened in 1904, a harbour, enclosed by breakwaters, for the development of traffic with Belfast and other Irish ports, a daily passenger-service of the first class being established to Belfast.

In this society, where there was no traffic in anything but wealth and ideas, the soldier was nothing more than an agitator or a parasite.

The return trip from Grand Junction had taken Dean twice the usual two hours, a slalom of ditched autos, snow plows, ice and stopped traffic.

It climbed gently along the escarpment above the river and was devoid of traffic.

A scattering of cars dotted the parking lot but due to the late hour the avenue beyond was nearly devoid of traffic.

First I get to third-degree a woman who just lost her husband and then I get to fight Philadelphia traffic.

A capital expenditure of 1/24,000,000 annually was decided on to bring the lines up to the necessary state of efficiency to be able to cope with the rapidly increasing traffic. It was estimated in 1906 that this would have to be maintained for a period of ten years, with a further total expenditure of 1/21 4,000,000 on new lines.

The substitution of steamships for sailing vessels has brought about a diminution in the number of vessels belonging to the Italian mercantile marine, whether employed in the coasting trade, the fisheries or in traffic on the high seas.

Gradually the increase of traffic consequent upon the industrial development of Italy decreased the annual losses of the state, but the position of the government in regard to the railways still remained so unsatisfactory as to render the resumption of the whole system by the state on the expiration of the first period of twenty years in 1905 inevitable.

They initiated a system of obstruction which hampered and delayed the traffic without alto gether suspending it.

In October 1907 there was again a general strike at Milan, which was rendered more serious on account of the action of the railway servants, and extended to other cities; traffic was disorganized over a large part of northern Italy, until the government, being now owner of the railways, dismissed the ringleaders from the service.