[U]
1 the vehicles that are on a road at a particular time:
heavy / rush-hour traffic * local / through traffic * There's always a lot of traffic at this time of day. * They were stuck in traffic and missed their flight. * a plan to reduce traffic congestion * traffic police (= who control traffic on a road or stop drivers who are breaking the law) * We got used to the constant noise of the traffic.
2 the movement of ships, trains, aircraft, etc. along a particular route:
transatlantic traffic * air traffic control / controllers
3 the movement of people or goods from one place to another:
commuter / freight / passenger traffic * the traffic of goods between one country and another
4 ~ (in sth) illegal trade in sth:
the traffic in drugs / firearms
verb (-ck-)
PHRASALVERBS
traffic in sth to buy and sell sth illegally:
to traffic in drugs / arms
trafficker noun:
a drugs trafficker
trafficking noun [U]:
to be accused of drug trafficking
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for traffic is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is traffic a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, traffic is tagged as noun.
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