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Employment vs Traffic - What's the difference?

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Employment is a related term of traffic.


As nouns the difference between employment and traffic

is that employment is a use, purpose 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.

employment

English

Noun

(wikipedia employment)
  • A use, purpose
  • * 1873 , John Stuart Mill, Autobiography of John Stuart Mill
    • This new employment of his time caused no relaxation in his attention to my education.
  • The act of employing
    • ''The personnel director handled the whole employment procedure
  • The state of being employed
  • * 1853 , Herman Melville, Bartleby, the Scrivener'', in ''Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories'', New York: Penguin Books, 1968; reprint 1995 as ''Bartleby , ISBN 0 14 60.0012 9, p.3:
    • At the period just preceding the advent of Bartleby, I had two persons as copyists in my employment , and a promising lad as an office-boy.
  • The work or occupation for which one is used, and often paid
  • An activity to which one devotes time
  • (economics) The number or percentage of people at work

    • Synonyms

    * employ * hire

    Antonyms

    * unemployment * underemployment

    Related terms

    * employ * employable * employed * employee * employer

    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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