Synonyms for traffic
ˈtræf ɪktraf·fic

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

1. traffic

   A business is what one follows regularly; an occupation is what he happens at any time to be engaged in; trout-fishing may be one's occupation for a time, as a relief from business; business is ordinarily for profit, while the occupation may be a matter of learning, philanthropy, or religion. A profession implies scholarship; as, the learned professions. Pursuit is an occupation which one follows with ardor. An avocation is what calls one away from other work; a vocation or calling, that to which one is called by some special fitness or sense of duty; thus, we speak of the gospel ministry as a vocation or calling, rather than a business. Trade or trading is, in general, the exchanging of one thing for another; in the special sense, a trade is an occupation involving manual training and skilled labor; as, the ancient Jews held that every boy should learn a trade. A transaction is a single action, whether in business, diplomacy, or otherwise; affair has a similar, but lighter meaning; as, this little affair; an important transaction. The plural affairs has a distinctive meaning, including all activities where men deal with one another on any considerable scale; as, a man of affairs. A job is a piece of work viewed as a single undertaking, and ordinarily paid for as such. Trade and commerce may be used as equivalents, but trade is capable of a more limited application; we speak of the trade of a village, the commerce of a nation. Barter is the direct exchange of commodities; business, trade, and commerce are chiefly transacted by means of money, bills of exchange, etc. Business, occupation, etc., may be what one does independently; employment may be in the service of another. Work is any application of energy to secure a result, or the result thus secured; thus, we speak of the work of God. Art in the industrial sense is a system of rules and accepted methods for the accomplishment of some practical result; as, the art of printing; collectively, the arts. A craft is some occupation requiring technical skill or manual dexterity, or the persons, collectively, engaged in its exercise; as, the weaver's craft.

   Synonyms:
   affair, art, avocation, barter, business, calling, commerce, concern, craft, duty, employment, handicraft, job, occupation, profession, trade, trading, transaction, vocation, work

   Preposition:
   The business of a druggist; in business with his father; doing business for his father; have you business with me? business in New York; business about, concerning, or in regard to certain property.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. traffic

   Synonyms:
   commerce, exchange, intercourse

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. trafficnoun

   the aggregation of things (pedestrians or vehicles) coming and going in a particular locality during a specified period of time

   Synonyms:
   dealings

2. trafficnoun

   buying and selling; especially illicit trade

   Synonyms:
   dealings

3. trafficnoun

   the amount of activity over a communication system during a given period of time

   "heavy traffic overloaded the trunk lines"; "traffic on the internet is lightest during the night"

   Synonyms:
   dealings

4. dealings, trafficverb

   social or verbal interchange (usually followed by `with')

   Synonyms:
   relations, dealing, transaction, dealings

5. trafficverb

   deal illegally

   "traffic drugs"

6. trafficverb

   trade or deal a commodity

   "They trafficked with us for gold"

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1. • Collection
   • Commerce
   • Communication
   • Crime
   • Trade

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. trafficnoun

   Synonyms:
   TRADE, commerce

2. trafficverb

   Synonyms:
   trade, deal, bargain, chaffer, carry on commerce, buy and sell

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "traffic":

   trafficking, transport, circulation, movement, transportation, jiaotong, smuggling, transit, road, vehicles, flow, vehicular, trade, chiao, vehicle, travelling, passage

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. TRAFFIC

   Synonyms:
   Therapeutic Angiogenesis with recombinant Fibroblast growth Factor-2 (rFGF-2) for Intermittent Claudication

2. traffic

   Synonyms:
   1. See Motor vehicles 2. Sexual traffic, see there
   

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1. Jos Lelieveld:

   When most people think of outdoor air pollution, they tend to think of traffic and industry having the largest impact on global premature mortality, not residential energy emissions and agriculture.

2. Chapter President Valerie Butler:

   There are so many things that went wrong with this traffic stop, but it is indicative of what's happening around the country, and how officers walk away from cases with no disciplinary action, to include termination and or firing, it was shameful. It was embarrassing. It was disgusting.

3. Carl Guardino:

   As I sit here going almost zero miles per hour in the carpool lane on Highway 101, it kind of sells itself, people are tired of traffic and its impact on their quality of life and on the economy as a whole.

4. Marylin Zuniga:

   Marylin Zuniga, a first-year teacher who drew widespread condemnation for assigning Marylin Zuniga young charges the task of writing to Mumia Abu-Jamal, was canned at the meeting of the Orange Board of Education, the Star-Ledger of Newark reported. Even when I heard that the letters were written... because of compassion, you could've written to somebody in a nursing home. - Gloria Stewart, Orange Board of Education, NJ resident Marylin Zuniga, who taught at Forest Street Elementary School, told board members prior to their hasty vote to can Marylin Zuniga that Marylin Zuniga has broad support from around the country, the newspaper reported. There's people around the nation who support me, who believe I need to be reinstated and I believe that I need to be reinstated, my students need me in the classroom. My students have requested that I come back to the classroom. Abu-Jamal, a 61-year-old serving a life sentence for the 1981 murder of Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner, is a self-styled poet who became a darling of celebrities and activists while on death row. His sentence was later commuted to life without parole, and he was suffering from complications from diabetes when Marylin Zuniga assigned the task. The vote to fire Zuniga occurred after several hours of public speakers, many of whom praised Zuniga for teaching Marylin Zuniga students to have compassion for a man who killed a police officer. Abu-Jamal killed Daniel Faulkner during a routine traffic stop of Abu-Jamal’s brother. At trial, several witnesses reported seeing Abu-Jamal kill Daniel Faulkner, and two witnesses said Abu-Jamal confessed to the killing, saying, I shot the mother --- er, and I hope the mother --- er dies. Although the abrupt vote left meeting attendees unsure of what had happened, Orange Board of Education Superintendent Ronald Lee confirmed that Marylin Zuniga was fired in an email to the Star-Ledger. As this is a personnel issue, I have no further comments on this matter, Orange Superintendent Ronald Lee wrote. Zuniga’s attorney, Alan Levine, told the newspaper Marylin Zuniga is now considering legal action to challenge Marylin Zuniga firing. Several speakers at the meeting, including Essex County Freeholder President Britnee Timberlake, praised Marylin Zuniga.

5. Doug Coleman:

   Bridge day is the one day out of the year that the bridge is closed to traffic and we celebrate the bridge, typically, 80 to 100,000 people show up, 400 people bring their parachutes to jump. You can rappel from the catwalk. It's a big festival.