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Trafficked vs Mistrafficked - What's the difference?

trafficked | mistrafficked |

As a verb trafficked

is (traffic).

As an adjective mistrafficked is

(biochemistry) describing a protein that has been incorrectly trafficked (transported) after being produced in a cell.

trafficked

English

Verb

(head)
  • (traffic)

  • 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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    mistrafficked

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (biochemistry) Describing a protein that has been incorrectly trafficked (transported) after being produced in a cell