Traffic — Defs

01 v. i. 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.

imp. & p. p. Trafficked; p. pr. & vb. n. Trafficking

1.
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.
2.
To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain.

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

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

1.
Commerce, either by barter or by buying and selling; interchange of goods and commodities; trade.
“A merchant of great traffic through the world.” — Shak.

“The traffic in honors, places, and pardons.” — Macaulay.
2.
Commodities of the market.[R.]
“You 'll see a draggled damsel From Billingsgate her fishy traffic bear.” — Gay.
3.
The business done upon a railway, steamboat line, etc., with reference to the number of passengers or the amount of freight carried.

Phrases & compounds

Traffic return — a periodical statement of the receipts for goods and passengers, as on a railway line.

Traffic taker — a computer of the returns of traffic on a railway, steamboat line, etc.