traffic

traffic
I
n.
movement of vehicles, aircraft

1) to direct traffic (the police officer was directing traffic)

2) to block, hold up, obstruct, tie up traffic

3) bumper-to-bumper, heavy; light; rush-hour; slow-moving traffic

4) air; highway (AE), motorway (BE); inbound; local; long-distance; merging; one-way; through, thru (AE); two-way; vehicular traffic

5) (misc.) the flow of traffic; an update on traffic conditions; a traffic report

commerce, trade

6) brisk, lively traffic

7) illegal, illicit traffic

8) traffic in (illicit traffic in drugs)

misc.

9) (colloq.) to charge what the traffic will bear ('to charge as much as people are willing to pay')

II

v. (d; intr.) to traffic in (to traffic in drugs)

* * *
['træfɪk]
a traffic report
an update on traffic conditions
heavy
illicit traffic
inbound
lively traffic
local
merging
obstruct
one-way
rush-hour
slow-moving traffic
through
tie up traffic
two-way
vehicular traffic
highway (AE)
thru (AE)
(misc.) the flow of traffic
['commerce, trade'] brisk
bumper-to-bumper
to block
['misc. '] (colloq.) to charge what the traffic will bear ('to charge as much as people are willing to pay')
traffic in (illicit traffic in drugs)
['movement of vehicles, aircraft'] to direct traffic (the police officer was directing traffic)
(d; intr.) to traffic in (to traffic in drugs)

Combinatory dictionary. 2013.

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