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. Joe Germanotta:

   Some days, there are more homeless people down there than there is foot traffic in the early morning.

2. Melissa Lea:

   This happens...people coming in from South Auckland get to Mount Albert right?...and the thing it's like, hopefully, we could divert some of that traffic and criminals away from Mount Albert...

3. Jack Janasiewicz:

   Looking at foot traffic volume is not quite as telling any more. It's going to be online shopping as well. That's going to be the bigger one, are people getting up, getting dressed and going out and shopping physically or are they just getting dressed, moving to the couch and turning on their computer and ordering online.

4. Ellen Goodman:

   Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.

5. The Chula Vista Police Department:

   With strong support from the community, the Chula Vista Police Department began deploying drones from the rooftop of the Police Department Headquarters to 911 calls and other reports of emergency incidents such as crimes in progress, fires, traffic accidents, and reports of dangerous subjects.