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traffic

/ˈtɹæfɪk/ verb C2
  1. To pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to buy or sell goods. (intransitive)
  2. To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain. (intransitive)
  3. To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration. (transitive)

He/she/it traffics · Past trafficked · Past participle trafficked · -ing form trafficking

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Verb forms

Base form
traffic
He/she/it
traffics
Past
trafficked
Past participle
trafficked
-ing form
trafficking

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It was one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City to the north and west.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, p. 20 · B2
Then he dashed in wild pursuit amid the stream of the traffic, but the start was too great, and already the cab was out of sight.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 44 · C1
There was no one in Charles Street, but a great traffic was going on, as usual, in Whitehall, at the extremity.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 65 · B2
The entire traffic of Manhattan seemed to have jammed itself around them.
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 13 · C1

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