traffic

1. traffic (noun) — sense 1

Definition: Moving pedestrians or vehicles, or the flux or passage thereof.

Example: The traffic is slow during rush hour.

2. traffic (noun) — sense 2

Definition: The commercial transportation or exchange of goods, or the movement of passengers or people.

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

3. traffic (noun) — sense 3

Definition: A flow of customers for a store or restaurant.

Example: Sales are down due to a decline in store traffic.

4. traffic (verb) — sense 4

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

5. traffic (verb) — sense 5

Definition: To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain.

6. traffic (verb) — sense 6

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

Example: 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.

7. traffic (adj) — sense 7

Definition: Congested.

Example: It’s super traffic here in Manila.