| word | traffic |
|---|---|
| definition | noun Traffic refers to all the vehicles that are moving along the roads in a particular area. There was heavy traffic on the roads. Traffic was unusually light for that time of day. ...the problems of city life, such as traffic congestion. Traffic refers to the movement of ships, trains, or aircraft between one place and another. Traffic also refers to the people and goods that are being transported. Air traffic had returned to normal. The railways will carry a far higher proportion of freight traffic. The ferries can cope with the traffic of both goods and passengers. Traffic in something such as drugs or stolen goods is an illegal trade in them. He condemned the ruthless illegal traffic in endangered animals. The amount of traffic that a website gets is the number of visitors to that website. Traffic to the site had increased threefold. verb Someone who traffics in something such as drugs or stolen goods buys and sells them even though it is illegal to do so. The president said anyone who traffics in illegal drugs should be brought to justice. ...a documentary film to raise awareness of child trafficking in Europe. ...the trafficking of illegal weapons. |
| inflections | trafficstraffickingtraffickedtrafficking |
| cefr-level | A1 |
Tags: oxford5k::cefr-level:a1
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