trafficker

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traf·fic

(trăf′ĭk)

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.

a. The commercial exchange of goods; trade.

b. Illegal or improper commercial activity: drug traffic on city streets. See Synonyms at business.

a. The business of moving passengers and cargo through a transportation system.

b. The amount of cargo or number of passengers conveyed.

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

trafficker - someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money

marketer, seller, vender, vendor

booking 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

noun

A person engaged in buying and selling:

businessperson, dealer, merchandiser, merchant, speculator, trader, tradesman.

Translations

تِجارةٌ بالمَحْظورات

-iceobchodník

=-handlerhandler

illegaler Händler

trafiquant

üzér

-braskari; eiturlyfjasali

kšeftár

trafficker

[ˈtræfɪkəʳ] N → traficante mf (in en)

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

trafficker

[ˈtræfɪkə^r] n → trafiquant(e) m/f

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

trafficker

n (usu pej) → Händler(in) m(f), → Schieber(in) m(f) (pej); (in drugs also) → Dealer(in) m(f) (inf)

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

trafficker

[ˈtræfɪkəʳ] n → trafficante m/f

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

traffic

(ˈtrӕfik) noun

1. 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

References in classic literature ?

Stryver fitted the prisoner's case on the jury, like a compact suit of clothes; showing them how the patriot, Barsad, was a hired spy and traitor, an unblushing trafficker in blood, and one of the greatest scoundrels upon earth since accursed Judas--which he certainly did look rather like.

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Taking as their slogan the words of Pablo Escobar Gaviria, Colombia's major cocaine trafficker at the time, "Better a grave in Colombia than a prison in the US," the drug mafias launched a violent offensive to prevent passage of legislation to implement the agreement.

Effectiveness of Colombia's extradition policy questioned

Gholam-Reza Baghbani, chief of the Pasdaran Qods Force in Zahedan, as a Specially Designated Narcotics Trafficker for helping Afghan smugglers move drugs into Iran in exchange for weapons for the Taliban.

Pasdar general is tabbed as drug kingpin by US

In the first case of its kind, a judge made the award against a people trafficker and his wife.

Sex slaves win pounds 600k for ordeal; COURT

In addressing the problem of the proliferation of drug traffickers -now down to children aged 10 and 11 -he seems to be suggesting that in order to deprive the trafficker of a lucrative market, that we make the drugs legally available through official stores.

Your LETTERS: Threat of death for drug dealers

Shanta Bai, at age 10, was sold to a trafficker for $17 by the elderly village woman who had taken care of her when her parents died but found she could no longer afford to feed her.

Merchants of flesh

A cybersex trafficker who exploited her own daughter and sister and is feared to have also abused four other children, including a 2-year-old, was nabbed by the Philippine National Police Women and Children Protection Center (PNP WCPC) in Cebu City Wednesday.

Sex trafficker who exploited kin, 3 young boys nabbed in Cebu

A 17 year old trafficker, who Human Rights Watch could interview near the town of Arish, spoke freely of how he bought Eritreans from other Bedouins near his village "for about $10,000 each", some already badly injured by previous torture.

'I wanted to lie down and die'

Police spokesman said on Monday that Gulberg police on a tip-off conducted raid and nabbed a drug dealer Maqsood along with 160 litres liquor while 30 litres liquor was recovered from drug pusher Younus and 30 litres liquor from drug trafficker Rizwan.

463 litres Liquor seized,14 drug traffickers arrested

Mentioned in the book, human trafficker Aqeel Ahmed Abbasi, who hails from Dhamial, Rawalpindi is wanted by the FIA in case number 570/9, which was lodged on the complaint of the Austrian Embassy.

FIA expands red book of human traffickers

'The trafficker's intention is not to better your lot or that of your children but to enrich themselves to the detriment of your family, ' he said.