traffic

I

n.

movement of vehicles, aircraft

1) to direct traffic (the police officer was directing traffic)

2) to block, hold up, obstruct, tie up traffic

3) bumper-to-bumper, heavy; light; rush-hour; slow-moving traffic

4) air; highway (AE), motorway (BE); inbound; local; long-distance; merging; one-way; through, thru (AE); two-way; vehicular traffic

5) (misc.) the flow of traffic; an update on traffic conditions; a traffic report

commerce, trade

6) brisk, lively traffic

7) illegal, illicit traffic

8) traffic in (illicit traffic in drugs)

misc.

9) (colloq.) to charge what the traffic will bear ('to charge as much as people are willing to pay')

II

v. (d; intr.) to traffic in (to traffic in drugs)

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['træfɪk]

a traffic report

an update on traffic conditions

heavy

hold up

illicit traffic

inbound

light

lively traffic

local

long-distance

merging

obstruct

one-way

rush-hour

slow-moving traffic

through

tie up traffic

two-way

vehicular traffic

highway (AE)

thru (AE)

motorway (BE)

(misc.) the flow of traffic

['commerce, trade'] brisk

air

bumper-to-bumper

illegal

to block

['misc. '] (colloq.) to charge what the traffic will bear ('to charge as much as people are willing to pay')

traffic in (illicit traffic in drugs)

['movement of vehicles, aircraft'] to direct traffic (the police officer was directing traffic)

(d; intr.) to traffic in (to traffic in drugs)