traffic
Moving pedestrians or vehicles, or the flux or passage thereof.
Noun 4 meanings
Moving pedestrians or vehicles, or the flux or passage thereof.
“The traffic is slow during rush hour.”
The commercial transportation or exchange of goods, or the movement of passengers or people.
A flow of customers for a store or restaurant.
“Sales are down due to a decline in store traffic.”
The illegal trade or exchange of goods, often drugs.
Verb 3 meanings
To pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to buy or sell goods.
To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain.
To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration.
Adjective 1 meaning
Congested.
“It’s super traffic here in Manila.”
Etymology
From Middle French trafique, traffique (“traffic”), from Italian traffico (“traffic”) from trafficare (“to carry on trade”).
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TRAFFIC at a glance
TRAFFIC has 7 letters and scores 15 points in Scrabble (T 1 + R 1 + A 1 + F 4 + F 4 + I 1 + C 3) and 16 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #1,465 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with traffic
All rhymes- SPECIFIC17
- SCIENTIFIC17
- PACIFIC16
- TERRIFIC13
- HORRIFIC16
- PROLIFIC15
- FANFIC14
- UNSCIENTIFIC19
- NONSPECIFIC20
- HONORIFIC17
- CALORIFIC16
- MAFIC12
One letter away
- TRIFFIC15
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