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It's almost certainly going to be a low-traffic feed, more focused on serving up notifications of new content on the site than random observations about what sandwiches the team brought in today, but we're open to doing more in the future if the traffic is there and it seems worthwhile.

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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
  • It's almost certainly going to be a low-traffic feed, more focused on serving up notifications of new content on the site than random observations about what sandwiches the team brought in today, but we're open to doing more in the future if the traffic is there and it seems worthwhile. —  PC Plus
  • Lookery's own statistics from Quantcast suggest that their publisher traffic has been almost halved since the new site design was ... —  Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
  • Lookery's own statistics from Quantcast suggest that their publisher traffic has been almost halved since the new site design was released. —  Muti
  • On polling day, look at how bad the traffic is at the 8th Mile. 5 trucks are heading there, with 68 FRUs from 5 trucks deployed to do crowd control. —  SARA - Southeast Asian RSS Aggregator
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communication ·  trade ·  access ·  vehicle ·  supply ·  commerce ·  transport ·  travel ·  equipment ·  industry ·  sale ·  route

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traffic:   trafficking ·  trafficked
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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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