trafficking

verbbuy and sell; do business

Synonyms for trafficking

verb buy and sell; do business

Antonyms for trafficking

smuggling

noun. bootlegging

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 trafficking

I did not see that I was often trafficking in unworthiness and baseness.

When the trafficking was taking place, the spirits did not show themselves.

Sieys wrote from Berlin to reproach Talleyrand with trafficking in his honour.

Is it a lie that he is trafficking with Hamilton and the Whig lords to surrender the castle?

It is a poor affair to be trafficking in our evidences, or our anything.

He had no dealings with the trafficking or labouring part of mankind.

There is no thought of trafficking or economizing in labor and in love.

One group as they passed it was trafficking in cigarette cards.

It was in evidence that he was trafficking in appointments and in contracts.

All was kept within a vast network of office-seeking and trafficking.

trafficking

Synonyms for trafficking

Antonyms for trafficking

More words related to trafficking

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