noun
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A criminal activity in which people are recruited, harboured, transported, bought, or kidnapped to serve an exploitative purpose, such as sexual slavery, forced labor, or child soldiery.
verb
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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
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To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain.
definition
To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration.
noun
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The distribution of illegal drugs.
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The smuggling of illegal arms.
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The movement of an enzyme (or other protein) through tissue.
Examples of trafficking in a Sentence
He was living off of the proceeds of illegal drugs trafficking.
She had been making out with a man who might be involved in drug trafficking.
Mary was adamant about the fact that, for the surrogate mother, it was basically trafficking babies.
Seven people have been arrested as part of a nationwide crackdown on the trafficking of women into a life of vise.
While the women hosting purse parties may not realize it, they are often at the bottom of a much larger illegal trafficking chain of counterfeit goods.
The main focus of my research is to clarify the role of Rab GTPases in regulating vesicular trafficking in osteoclasts.
An admitted gang member, he was arrested and convicted of cocaine trafficking at an early age.
Like its predecessor, this title puts you into the action as a Navy SEAL who must stop forces who are engaged in weapon and drug trafficking.
Bedingfield is also active with a group called Stop the Traffik, which works to put an end to global human trafficking and Bono's (RED) campaign to raises awareness of poverty in Africa.
His country was also encouraged by the attention being given to the scourge of illicit trafficking in small arms.
It is therefore, likely that defects in synaptic vesicle trafficking may be associated with specific sub-forms of schizophrenia.
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Police drug traffickers arrested A fourth police officer in the southern province of Inhambane has been arrested for trafficking in the drug hashish.
The fight against the illicit traffic in cultural property The extent of illicit trafficking has never been greater.
They had been living a lavish lifestyle over a four year period principally funded from the proceeds of illegal drugs trafficking.
These include components of signaling pathways and ubiquitin ligase proteins that regulate signal receptor trafficking.
Once relatively stable, even sleepy, Karachi became a nexus for drug and arms trafficking in the 1980s.
The majority of cases concern trafficking into forced prostitution from Eastern Europe.
In Africa, illicit trafficking in small and light arms had become a major scourge.
Why were they not raiding a drugs den or a human trafficking sex slave brothel instead?
This was followed by La Nuova Italia ed i Vecchi Zelanti (1881), another attack on the Vatican policy; and by his Vaticano Regio (1883), in which he accuses the Vatican of trafficking in holy things and declares that the taint of worldliness came from the false principles accepted by the Curia.
The investigations of the most recent of Talleyrand's biographers tend to show that the charges made against him of trafficking with the envoys have been overdrawn; but all his apologists admit that irregularities occurred.
He could not have become suddenly blind to the fallacy of the expectations derived from such a course; and all his life it had been his distinction to look above the transient and trafficking expedients of the professional politician.
This unscrupulous proceeding, known as the Secularizations (February 1803), was carried out largely on lines laid down by Bonaparte and Talleyrand; and the latter is known to have made large sums of money by trafficking with the claimants of church lands.