traffic
/ˈtɹæfɪk/ verb C2- To pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to buy or sell goods.
- To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain.
- To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration.
He/she/it traffics · Past trafficked · Past participle trafficked · -ing form trafficking
Verb forms
- Base form
- traffic
- He/she/it
- traffics
- Past
- trafficked
- Past participle
- trafficked
- -ing form
- trafficking
An irregular verb: learn its past and past participle by heart.
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The entire traffic of Manhattan seemed to have jammed itself around them.
There was no one in Charles Street, but a great traffic was going on, as usual, in Whitehall, at the extremity.
With the policeman we both hurried down, but only to find the street full of traffic, many people coming and going, but all only too eager to get to a place of safety upon so wet a night.
It was one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City to the north and west.
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