trafficker
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traf·fic
(trăf′ĭk)n.
1.
a. The passage of people or vehicles along routes of transportation.
b. Vehicles or pedestrians in transit: heavy traffic on the turnpike; stopped oncoming traffic to let the children cross.
2.
a. The commercial exchange of goods; trade.
b. Illegal or improper commercial activity: drug traffic on city streets. See Synonyms at business.
3.
a. The business of moving passengers and cargo through a transportation system.
b. The amount of cargo or number of passengers conveyed.
4.
a. The conveyance of messages or data through a system of communication: routers that manage internet traffic.
b. Messages or data conveyed through such a system: a tremendous amount of telephone traffic on Mother's Day; couldn't download the file due to heavy internet traffic.
c. The number of users or visitors, as at a website: attempted to increase traffic with a redesigned homepage.
5. Social or verbal exchange; communication: refused further traffic with the estranged friend.
v. traf·ficked, traf·fick·ing, traf·fics
intr.v.
To carry on trade or other dealings: trafficked in liquidation merchandise; traffic with gangsters.
tr.v.
To provide to others, especially in large quantities, in exchange for money: was accused of trafficking guns to local gangs.
[French trafic, from Old French trafique, from Old Italian traffico, from trafficare, to trade, perhaps from Catalan trafegar, to decant, from Vulgar Latin *trānsfaecāre : trāns-, trans- + faex, faec-, dregs; see feces.]
traf′fick·er n.
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| Noun | 1. |  trafficker - someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for moneybooking clerk, ticket agent - someone who sells tickets (e.g., theater seats or travel accommodations) cosmetician - someone who sells or applies cosmetics flower girl - a woman who sells flowers in the street fruiterer - a person who sells fruit cheap-jack, huckster - a seller of shoddy goods merchandiser, merchant - a businessperson engaged in retail trade hawker, packman, peddler, pedlar, pitchman - someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals) selling agent - someone who sells goods (on commission) for others dealer - a seller of illicit goods; "a dealer in stolen goods" underseller - a seller that sells at a lower price than others do; "he went all over town looking for undersellers" |
trafficker
nounA person engaged in buying and selling:
Translations
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traffic
(ˈtrӕfik) noun1. vehicles, aircraft, ships etc moving about. There's a lot of traffic on the roads / on the river.
2. trade, especially illegal or dishonest. the drug traffic.
verb – past tense, past participle ˈtrafficked – to deal or trade in, especially illegally or dishonestly. They were trafficking in smuggled goods.
ˈtrafficker noun a usually illegal or dishonest dealer. a trafficker in drugs.
traffic island a small pavement in the middle of a road, for pedestrians to stand on on their way across.
traffic jam a situation in which large numbers of road vehicles are prevented from proceeding freely.
traffic lights lights of changing colours for controlling traffic at road crossings etc. Turn left at the traffic lights.
traffic wardenwarden