trafficked

verbbuy and sell; do business

Synonyms for trafficked

verb buy and sell; do business

Antonyms for trafficked

Word Origin & History

c.1500, "trade, commerce," from Middle French trafique (mid-15c.), from Italian traffico (early 14c.), from trafficare "carry on trade," of uncertain origin, perhaps from a Vulgar Latin *transfricare "to rub across" (from Latin trans- "across" + fricare "to rub"), with the original sense of the Italian verb being "touch repeatedly, handle."

Or the second element may be an unexplained alteration of Latin facere "to make, do." Klein suggests ultimate derivation of the Italian word from Arabic tafriq "distribution." Meaning "people and vehicles coming and going" first recorded 1825. Traffic jam is 1917, ousting earlier traffic block (1895).

Example Sentences for trafficked

That which is beautiful must not be trafficked with, but must only be reverenced and adored.

And besides, Samuel trafficked in sentiments as in native productions.

Was there nothing, nobody, that commercialism did not think for sale and to be trafficked in?

If any Minister had trafficked independently, he was that Minister.

He has trafficked direct, in his own bottoms, with New Zealand.

Men who trafficked in debauchery; these were to be banished.

They looked as dirty and rusty as the iron in which they trafficked.

But of this even the novelist, who trafficked in happy endings, had no suspicion.

When it came to Tabernacles, he trafficked in citrons and "palms."

With us, education is a commodity to be trafficked in: abroad, it is a duty.