traffic
/ˈtɹæfɪk/ noun A2- Moving pedestrians or vehicles, or the flux or passage thereof. · The traffic is slow during rush hour.
- The commercial transportation or exchange of goods, or the movement of passengers or people.
- A flow of customers for a store or restaurant. · Sales are down due to a decline in store traffic.
- The illegal trade or exchange of goods, often drugs.
- The exchange or flux of information, messages or data, as in a computer or telephone network.
- Of CB radio, formal written messages relayed on behalf of others.
- The amount of attention paid to a particular printed page etc., in a publication.
- The commodities of the market.
Plural traffics
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It was one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City to the north and west.
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.
There was no one in Charles Street, but a great traffic was going on, as usual, in Whitehall, at the extremity.
The entire traffic of Manhattan seemed to have jammed itself around them.
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