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For it turns out that many of those word-laden galleons that visit American shores also return home with their hulls stuffed with American exports: the traffic is two-way.

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  1. noun The passage of people or vehicles along routes of transportation.
  2. noun Vehicles or pedestrians in transit: heavy traffic on the turnpike; stopped oncoming traffic to let the children cross.
  3. noun The commercial exchange of goods; trade.

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  • The chief showed the same curiosity evinced by his tribe generally, to obtain information concerning the United States, of which they knew little but what they derived through their cousins, the Upper Nez Perces; as their traffic is almost exclusively with the British traders of the Hudson's Bay Company. —  The Adventures of Captain Bonneville
  • For it turns out that many of those word-laden galleons that visit American shores also return home with their hulls stuffed with American exports: the traffic is two-way. —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 1
  • They will hang a man who shelters or trades with a corsair as quickly as they'll hang the corsair himself! —  The Bloody Crown of Conan
  • H-e" 'm-i-g-h't" -h-a'v-e" -c-o'm-e" -a-c'r-o's's" 's-o'm-e't-h-i-n-g" 't-h-e" 'v-a'l-u-e" -o-f" -w-h-i-c-h" -h-e" -n-e'v-e'r" -k-n-e-w-. —  Masterpieces in Miniature
  • The headquarters of their traffic was at Augusta. —  The White Slave or Memoirs of a Fugitive
 

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communication ·  trade ·  access ·  vehicle ·  supply ·  commerce ·  transport ·  travel ·  equipment ·  industry ·  sale ·  route
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. French trafic, from Old French trafique, from Old Italian traffico, from trafficare, to trade, perhaps from Catalan trafegar, to decant, from Vulgar Latin *trānsfaecāre : trāns-, trans- + faex, faec-, dregs; see feces.

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  1. Early modern English traffick, traffike, traffique; from Old French trafique, French trafic =Provencal trafec, trafey =Spanish tráfico, tráfago =Portuguese trafico, trafego =Italian traffico (Middle Latin reflexive trafficum, trafica), traffic; origin unknown.
  2. Early modern English traffick, traffike, traffique; from French trafiquer =Spanish traficar, trafagar =Portuguese traficar, trafeguear =Italian trafficare (Middle Latin reflexive traficare. traffigare), traffic; from the noun.
 

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