Hypertext Webster Gateway: "traffic"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Traffic \Traf"fic\, n. [Cf. F. trafic, It. traffico, Sp.
tr['a]fico, tr['a]fago, Pg. tr['a]fego, LL. traficum,
trafica. See {Traffic}, v.]
1. Commerce, either by barter or by buying and selling;
interchange of goods and commodities; trade.

A merchant of great traffic through the world.
--Shak.

The traffic in honors, places, and pardons.
--Macaulay.

Note: This word, like trade, comprehends every species of
dealing in the exchange or passing of goods or
merchandise from hand to hand for an equivalent, unless
the business of relating may be excepted. It signifies
appropriately foreign trade, but is not limited to
that.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Traffic \Traf"fic\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Trafficked}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Trafficking}.] [F. trafiquer; cf. It. trafficare, Sp.
traficar, trafagar, Pg. traficar, trafegar, trafeguear, LL.
traficare; of uncertain origin, perhaps fr. L. trans across,
over + -ficare to make (see {-fy}, and cf. G. ["u]bermachen
to transmit, send over, e. g., money, wares); or cf. Pg.
trasfegar to pour out from one vessel into another, OPg.
also, to traffic, perhaps fr. (assumed) LL. vicare to
exchange, from L. vicis change (cf. {Vicar}).]
1. 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.

2. To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Traffic \Traf"fic\, v. t.
To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a
consideration.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

traffic
n 1: the aggregation of things (pedestrians or vehicles or
messages) coming and going in a particular locality
2: buying and selling; especially illicit trade
3: social or verbal interchange (usually followed by `with')
[syn: {dealings}]
v 1: deal illegally; "traffic drugs"
2: trade or deal a commodity; "They trafficked with us for
gold"


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