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Traffic vs Trafficking - What's the difference?

traffic | trafficking |

As nouns the difference between traffic and trafficking

is that traffic is pedestrians or vehicles on roads, or the flux or passage thereof while trafficking is a shorter form of lang=en.

As verbs the difference between traffic and trafficking

is that 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 while trafficking is present participle of lang=en.

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.
  • References

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    trafficking

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The distribution of illegal drugs
  • the smuggling of illegal arms
  • (biochemistry) The movement of an enzyme (or other protein) through tissue