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Avocation vs Traffic - What's the difference?

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Avocation is a related term of traffic.


As nouns the difference between avocation and traffic

is that avocation is (obsolete) a calling away; a diversion while traffic is pedestrians or vehicles on roads, or the flux or passage thereof.

As a verb traffic is

to pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to buy or sell goods; to barter; to trade.

avocation

English

(wikipedia avocation)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) A calling away; a diversion.
  • * 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 204:
    • But though she could neither sleep nor rest in her bed, yet, having no avocation from it, she was found there by her father at his return from Allworthy's, which was not till past ten o'clock in the morning.
  • A hobby or recreational or leisure pursuit.
  • * 1934 , Robert Frost, Two Tramps in Mud Time
  • *:But yield who will to their separation,
  • *:My object in living is to unite
  • *:My avocation and my vocation
  • *:As my two eyes make one in sight.
  • That which calls one away from one's regular employment or vocation.
  • Pursuits; duties; affairs which occupy one's time; usual employment; vocation.

    • See also

    * volunteerism

    traffic

    English

    (wikipedia traffic)

    Alternative forms

    * traffick

    Noun

    (-)
  • Pedestrians or vehicles on roads, or the flux or passage thereof.
    • Traffic is slow at rush hour.
  • Commercial transportation or exchange of goods, or the movement of passengers or people.
  • * 1719 , :
    • I had three large axes, and abundance of hatchets (for we carried the hatchets for traffic with the Indians).
  • * 2007 , John Darwin, After Tamerlane , Penguin 2008, p. 12:
    • It's units of study are regions or oceans, long-distance trades [...], the traffic of cults and beliefs between cultures and continents.
  • Illegal trade or exchange of goods, often drugs.
  • Exchange or flux of information, messages or data, as in a computer or telephone network.
  • Commodities of the market.
  • * John Gay
    • You'll see a draggled damsel / From Billingsgate her fishy traffic bear.

    Derived terms

    * traffic boy * traffic jam

    Verb

    (traffick)
  • To pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to buy or sell goods; to barter; to trade.
  • To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain.
  • To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration.

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