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traffic English

Meaning traffic meaning

What does traffic mean?
Definitions in simple English

traffic

Traffic is the things that move along a path, especially cars on a road. Traffic is slow at rush hour. On holiday weekends there are traffic jams that stretch for miles. He turned quickly, nearly getting hit by oncoming traffic. Almost half of all traffic accidents are alcohol-related. Why does it take the traffic lights so long to turn green? As the amount of traffic on the Internet increases, there are more and more problems. Traffic is the buying and selling of goods, especially illegal goods. Governments are working to prevent the abduction and sale of, or traffic in children.

traffic

If you traffic in certain goods, you buy and sell them, especially illegally. They were arrested for trafficking in stolen goods.

traffic

the aggregation of things (pedestrians or vehicles) coming and going in a particular locality during a specified period of time buying and selling; especially illicit trade the amount of activity over a communication system during a given period of time heavy traffic overloaded the trunk lines traffic on the internet is lightest during the night trade or deal a commodity They trafficked with us for gold deal illegally traffic drugs (= dealings) social or verbal interchange (usually followed by 'with')

Synonyms traffic synonyms

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Topics traffic topics

What do people use traffic to talk about?
  • What words refer to people and vehicles traveling on a road?

Conjugation traffic conjugation

How do you conjugate traffic?

traffic · verb

Examples traffic examples

How do I use traffic in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Dick had a traffic accident.
The traffic accident deprived him of his sight.
He had a traffic accident.
I had an appointment at 2:30, but I got caught in traffic and couldn't get there in time.
The accident created a traffic jam.
There's no traffic jam.
Air traffic control systems are unified within the European airspace.
There's a traffic jam on the motorway.
We are in a traffic jam.
At this hour, there is incredible traffic.
The sudden increase of cars is causing a large number of traffic accidents every day.
The bridge is open to traffic.
We must pay attention to traffic signals.
We got involved in a traffic accident.
You should obey the traffic laws when you drive.
A rush-hour traffic jam delayed my arrival by two hours.
If the number of cars increases, so will the traffic.
If you had left a little earlier, you would have avoided the heavy traffic.
The noise of the heavy traffic kept me awake all night.
While I was waiting for the bus, I saw a traffic accident.
The bus was late because of the traffic jam.
Drivers should be aware of the traffic rules.
Drivers must observe the traffic rules.
Always give way to traffic coming from the right.
Every driver must follow the traffic rules.
If there weren't so many taxis, there would be fewer traffic accidents.
Those cities have uniform traffic laws.
The road is inadequate for the amount of traffic which it carries.

Movie subtitles

When the intrepid Venetian Marco Polo had visited China in the 1 27 0s, he'd been astonished by the volume of traffic on the Yangtze.
We could run in traffic.
Mind the traffic.
I have no traffic with assassins.
I have to get back to London before the evening traffic starts.
He could've if he grabbed a fast car right away and got a break with the traffic.
I'd have taken the job if I had to ride a horse or hand out traffic tickets.
Traffic Court.
This newspaperwoman, whom we have subpoenaed to testify. tells how he held up traffic for an hour feeding donuts to a poor horse.
But you have a traffic control.
Traffic light.
There's no traffic.
There's too much traffic.
I got caught in traffic.
What do you think of the problems of traffic and marriage?
There's going to be a lot of traffic. I can see that.
Blocking traffic, holding up cars.
Look out for the traffic!
I dont traffic in forbidden merchandise.
I know, this New Year's traffic is terrible, isn't it?
Traffic Court. - Pardon me.
This newspaperwoman, who we've subpoenaed to testify, tells how he held up traffic for an hour feeding doughnuts to a poor horse.
Run along now, you're obstructing traffic.
Leaned against the parapet and watched the river traffic. What an alibi. While the crime was being committed.
Traffic between levels is limited according to rank.
Jimmy, I couldn't sneak out until after 8 and my taxi got caught in a traffic jam.
You can't stand there. Don't you realize you're obstructing traffic?
There's too much traffic. We gotta wait for a better opening.
No, you got caught in the traffic.
When your brother became head of the Carlsen Trucking service did you get a job as traffic manager with the company?
Be careful of the traffic.
We're holding up the traffic.
I may not be model citizen number one but I pay my taxes, wait for traffic lights, buy 24 tickets regular to the policeman's ball.
Arrangements have been made to control any interference from harbor traffic on the Staten Island side.
A traffic cop whistling at a pedestrian crossing.
It ain't just to keep us chasing after crooks and regulating traffic.

News and current affairs

Mexico has to assume responsibility for regulating this traffic, which means more than sealing off its southern border.
Private oversight can often produce better and more efficient construction, and, in theory, toll roads help alleviate traffic congestion.
Journalists used to lead the way, rather than slavishly following the flow of superficial Internet traffic.
Binding international rules are thus imperative in order to ensure the safety of fast-growing commercial air traffic.
Unions and agricultural groups tie up traffic with protests every other day, hinting at possible escalation.
By reducing the stresses of driving in heavy traffic and unfamiliar locations, this technology promises greater protection for both drivers and pedestrians.
For example, traffic accidents claim an estimated 1.2 million lives every year.
Perhaps it is because we experience the downside of excessive traffic regulation or security measures every day, while the downside of bad climate policy is more of an abstraction.
China's effort to develop more evenly, despite the permanent in-built advantages of the coast, takes the form of two-way traffic in capital and labor between coastal and interior regions.
Our cities are exploding in size, depleting water resources and creating horrific traffic congestion.
We say that Mary died in a car accident, not that she was a casualty of the Road Traffic Act.
In Europe, black Saturday falls in the last weekend of July, when the French and other Europeans set off in droves for their Mediterranean holiday destinations, and highways get jammed with traffic.
If traffic is stalled for hours and no one else is making progress, we tend to relax and accept the situation resignedly.
If the traffic then starts moving in another lane, everyone will greet the change with elation.
When police raided one place, copies emerged from other secure depots, to be sold in the streets by kamikaze youths who darted in and out of traffic offering the subversive contraband.
Moreover, American journalists know perfectly well that they, too, traffic in classified material constantly - indeed, many prominent US reporters have built lucrative careers doing exactly what Assange is doing.
Among its many innovations were a paternalistic approach to saving and use of the price mechanism to defeat urban traffic congestion (an approach later adopted by London).
In recent days, the authorities have also requested businesses to stagger the working day before, during, and after the Games to reduce traffic volumes, alongside a raft of other traffic-cutting measures.
Why are we willing to calculate costs and benefits when it comes to traffic safety and terrorism, but not when devising policies to deal with global warming?
When carrying his petition to Beijing, escorted by a tiny group of lawyers, Chen was accused of disrupting traffic on the city's clogged roads and condemned to four years in jail.

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