traffic

noun

1. (uncountable, usually)Moving pedestrians or vehicles, or the flux or passage thereof.

   “The traffic is slow during rush hour.”

   “VVhoſe miſaduentures, piteous ouerthrovves, / (Through the continuing of their Fathers ſtrife, / And death-markt paſſage of their Parents rage) / Is novv the tvvo hovvres traffique of our Stage.”

2. (uncountable, usually)The commercial transportation or exchange of goods, or the movement of passengers or people.

   “I had three large axes, and abundance of hatchets (for we carried the hatchets for traffic with the Indians).”

   “To assume that the recent investigation of the white slave traffic (and, by the way, a very superficial investigation) has discovered anything new, is, to say the least, very foolish”

   “Its units of study are regions or oceans, long-distance trades [...], the traffic of cults and beliefs between cultures and continents.”

3. (uncountable, usually)The illegal trade or exchange of goods, often drugs.

   “They, in turn, had long dominated the drug traffic in the area of north-east Afghanistan that they controlled during the Taliban years.”

4. (uncountable, usually)The exchange or flux of information, messages or data, as in a computer or telephone network.

   “The parish stank of idolatry, abominable rites were practiced in secret, and in all the bounds there was no one had a more evil name for the black traffic than one Alison Sempill, who bode at the Skerburnfoot.”

   “Internet traffic to legal pornography sites in the UK comprised 8.5% of all "clicks" on web pages in June – exceeding those for shopping, news, business or social networks, according to new data obtained exclusively by the Guardian.”

5. (uncountable, usually)The exchange or flux of information, messages or data, as in a computer or telephone network.
6. (uncountable, usually)The exchange or flux of information, messages or data, as in a computer or telephone network.

   “Those fixed locations which are sold to advertisers become preferred according to the expected page traffic.”

7. (uncountable, usually)The commodities of the market.

   “You'll see a draggled damsel / From Billingsgate her fishy traffic bear.”

verb

1. (intransitive)To pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to buy or sell goods.
2. (intransitive)To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain.
3. (transitive)To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration.

   “A Libyan longing took us, and we would have chosen, if we could, to bear a strand of grotesque beads, or a handful of brazen gauds, and traffic them for some sable maid with crisp locks, whom, uncoffling from the captive train beside the desert, we should make to do our general housework forever, through the right of lawful purchase.”

adj

1. (Philippines)Congested.

   “It’s super traffic here in Manila.”