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Traffick vs. Traffic: What's the Difference?

Traffick is an archaic spelling of the modern word traffic, which refers to the movement of vehicles, people, or goods along a route or the illegal trade of substances or people.

Traffick and Traffic Definitions

Traffick

Alternative spelling of traffic{{qualifier}}

Traffic

The passage of people or vehicles along routes of transportation.

Traffick

Archaic spelling of traffic

Traffic

Vehicles or pedestrians in transit
Heavy traffic on the turnpike.
Stopped oncoming traffic to let the children cross.

Traffic

The commercial exchange of goods; trade.
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Traffic

Illegal or improper commercial activity
Drug traffic on city streets.

Traffic

The business of moving passengers and cargo through a transportation system.

Traffic

The amount of cargo or number of passengers conveyed.

Traffic

The conveyance of messages or data through a system of communication
Routers that manage internet traffic.

Traffic

Messages or data conveyed through such a system
A tremendous amount of telephone traffic on Mother's Day.
Couldn't download the file due to heavy internet traffic.
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Traffic

The number of users or visitors, as at a website
Attempted to increase traffic with a redesigned homepage.

Traffic

Social or verbal exchange; communication
Refused further traffic with the estranged friend.

Traffic

To carry on trade or other dealings
Trafficked in liquidation merchandise.
Traffic with gangsters.

Traffic

To provide to others, especially in large quantities, in exchange for money
Was accused of trafficking guns to local gangs.

Traffic

Moving pedestrians or vehicles, or the flux or passage thereof.
The traffic is slow during rush hour.

Traffic

Commercial transportation or exchange of goods, or the movement of passengers or people.

Traffic

Illegal trade or exchange of goods, often drugs.

Traffic

Exchange or flux of information, messages or data, as in a computer or telephone network.

Traffic

(radio) In CB radio, formal written messages relayed on behalf of others.

Traffic

(advertising) The amount of attention paid to a particular printed page etc. in a publication.

Traffic

Commodities of the market.

Traffic

(intransitive) To pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to buy or sell goods.

Traffic

(intransitive) To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain.

Traffic

(transitive) To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration.

Traffic

Congested

Traffic

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.

Traffic

To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain.

Traffic

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

Traffic

Commerce, either by barter or by buying and selling; interchange of goods and commodities; trade.
A merchant of great traffic through the world.
The traffic in honors, places, and pardons.

Traffic

Commodities of the market.
You 'll see a draggled damselFrom Billingsgate her fishy traffic bear.

Traffic

The business done upon a railway, steamboat line, etc., with reference to the number of passengers or the amount of freight carried.

Traffic

The aggregation of things (pedestrians or vehicles) coming and going in a particular locality during a specified period of time

Traffic

Buying and selling; especially illicit trade

Traffic

The amount of activity over a communication system during a given period of time;
Heavy traffic overloaded the trunk lines
Traffic on the internet is lightest during the night

Traffic

Social or verbal interchange (usually followed by `with')

Traffic

Deal illegally;
Traffic drugs

Traffic

Trade or deal a commodity;
They trafficked with us for gold

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