traffic

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1. 1.To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain.
2. 2.To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration.
3. 3.Commerce, either by barter or by buying and selling; interchange of goods and commodities; trade. A merchant of great traffic through the world. Shak. The traffic in honors, places, and pardons. Macaulay. Note: This word, like trade, comprehends every species of dealing in the exchange or passing of goods or merchandise from hand to hand for an equivalent, unless the business of relating may be excepted. It signifies appropriately foreign trade, but is not limited to that.
4. 4.Commodities of the market. [R.] You 'll see a draggled damsel From Billingsgate her fishy traffic bear. Gay.
5. 5.The business done upon a railway, steamboat line, etc., with reference to the number of passengers or the amount of freight carried. Traffic return, a periodical statement of the receipts for goods and passengers, as on a railway line. -- Traffic taker, a computer of the returns of traffic on a railway, steamboat line, etc.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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• What is to trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain called?
• What is to exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration called?
• What is commodities of the market. [R.] You 'll see a draggled damsel From Billingsgate her fishy traffic bear. Gay called?