Traffic vs Mobility - What's the difference?
traffic | mobility |
Pedestrians or vehicles on roads, or the flux or passage thereof.
Commercial transportation or exchange of goods, or the movement of passengers or people.
* 1719 , :
* 2007 , John Darwin, After Tamerlane , Penguin 2008, p. 12:
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
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.
(uncountable) The condition of being mobile
(countable) A measure of the extent to which something is mobile
(countable) The movement of people or things
(uncountable) Ease of movement between economic conditions
As nouns the difference between traffic and mobility
is that traffic is pedestrians or vehicles on roads, or the flux or passage thereof while mobility is the condition of being mobile.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.traffic
English
(wikipedia traffic)Alternative forms
* traffickNoun
(-)- Traffic is slow at rush hour.
- I had three large axes, and abundance of hatchets (for we carried the hatchets for traffic with the Indians).
- It's units of study are regions or oceans, long-distance trades [...], the traffic of cults and beliefs between cultures and continents.
- You'll see a draggled damsel / From Billingsgate her fishy traffic bear.
