traffic
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4.7
- noun
- /ˈtræfɪk/
- NSFW
:
tráfico
- I'm breaking the story on the drug traffic around here.
- drug traffic
- illegal traffic
- narcotics traffic
He's a friend of mine, very knowledgeable about human trafficking and about organised crime.
- He's a friend of mine, very knowledgeable about human trafficking and about organised crime.
- You've also got which my third book looks at the the traffic of firearms.
- These are rebel groups that are, you know, making money off of trafficking humans or drugs or you name it.
- His own sting, His his own department staying there trying to strut down some sex trafficking.
- Cartels, the cartels, cartels, some of the biggest money makers as far as the border for cartels are trafficking in people and trafficking in in narcotics.
- traffic, but also the traffic and drugs in women, in undocumented labour, pirate radio, the traffic and dreams and desires.
Examples
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Stringent regulations of liquor traffic became part of the WNIA annual platform of resolutions.
Academic text (1990) -
The police arrested several individuals involved in the illegal arms traffic last week.
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Consequently, city trade was reduced to simple traffic in foodstuffs.
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The volume of slave traffic during that period numbered more than 6,000 persons a year.
Academic text (1990) -
By the early 1860s, almost the whole of the British traffic passed into the hands of the steamship companies.
Academic text (1993) -
The authorities have increased their efforts to combat drug traffic in the city.
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New laws are being implemented to tackle human traffic across the borders.
Synonyms
183
5.6
Illegal buying and selling of people, animals and goods often across borders
Idioms
- Slang
Tell someone angrily to do something dangerous to stop them complaining
Compounds
28
1.0
A device with red, yellow and green lights that controls cars and people at street intersections
8
1.4
A system of colored lights where roads meet that tells cars and people when to go
4
2.7
A red, yellow and green sign on a report or screen that shows a project's status
2
2.8
A round road junction where cars go around a central island to enter or leave
1
2.1
A time when cars and other vehicles move slowly and sometimes stop because of heavy traffic or an accident
- Specialized
The amount of data sent between parts of a computer over a shared connection
- Texting
Visits to a website that come from people typing the address or using a bookmark
- Specialized
A time when data takes longer to travel across a computer network, causing lag
- NSFW
The buying, selling, and moving of people to be forced to work, especially Africans taken to the Americas
How Illicit
Surface Forms
Etymology
Traffic began as a word for buying and selling, like the simple word trade, meaning 'business' between people, so it naturally came to mean the buying and selling of goods, even when illegal.