Antonyms for traffic
ˈtræf ɪktraf·fic

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

1. traffic

   A business is what one follows regularly; an occupation is what he happens at any time to be engaged in; trout-fishing may be one's occupation for a time, as a relief from business; business is ordinarily for profit, while the occupation may be a matter of learning, philanthropy, or religion. A profession implies scholarship; as, the learned professions. Pursuit is an occupation which one follows with ardor. An avocation is what calls one away from other work; a vocation or calling, that to which one is called by some special fitness or sense of duty; thus, we speak of the gospel ministry as a vocation or calling, rather than a business. Trade or trading is, in general, the exchanging of one thing for another; in the special sense, a trade is an occupation involving manual training and skilled labor; as, the ancient Jews held that every boy should learn a trade. A transaction is a single action, whether in business, diplomacy, or otherwise; affair has a similar, but lighter meaning; as, this little affair; an important transaction. The plural affairs has a distinctive meaning, including all activities where men deal with one another on any considerable scale; as, a man of affairs. A job is a piece of work viewed as a single undertaking, and ordinarily paid for as such. Trade and commerce may be used as equivalents, but trade is capable of a more limited application; we speak of the trade of a village, the commerce of a nation. Barter is the direct exchange of commodities; business, trade, and commerce are chiefly transacted by means of money, bills of exchange, etc. Business, occupation, etc., may be what one does independently; employment may be in the service of another. Work is any application of energy to secure a result, or the result thus secured; thus, we speak of the work of God. Art in the industrial sense is a system of rules and accepted methods for the accomplishment of some practical result; as, the art of printing; collectively, the arts. A craft is some occupation requiring technical skill or manual dexterity, or the persons, collectively, engaged in its exercise; as, the weaver's craft.

   Synonyms:
   affair, art, avocation, barter, business, calling, commerce, concern, craft, duty, employment, handicraft, job, occupation, profession, trade, trading, transaction, vocation, work

   Preposition:
   The business of a druggist; in business with his father; doing business for his father; have you business with me? business in New York; business about, concerning, or in regard to certain property.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. traffic

   Synonyms:
   commerce, exchange, intercourse

Matched Categories

1. • Collection
   • Commerce
   • Communication
   • Crime
   • Trade

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. trafficnoun

   the aggregation of things (pedestrians or vehicles) coming and going in a particular locality during a specified period of time

   Synonyms:
   dealings

2. trafficnoun

   buying and selling; especially illicit trade

   Synonyms:
   dealings

3. trafficnoun

   the amount of activity over a communication system during a given period of time

   "heavy traffic overloaded the trunk lines"; "traffic on the internet is lightest during the night"

   Synonyms:
   dealings

4. dealings, trafficverb

   social or verbal interchange (usually followed by `with')

   Synonyms:
   relations, dealing, transaction, dealings

5. trafficverb

   deal illegally

   "traffic drugs"

6. trafficverb

   trade or deal a commodity

   "They trafficked with us for gold"

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. TRAFFIC

   Synonyms:
   Therapeutic Angiogenesis with recombinant Fibroblast growth Factor-2 (rFGF-2) for Intermittent Claudication

2. traffic

   Synonyms:
   1. See Motor vehicles 2. Sexual traffic, see there
   

How to use traffic in a sentence?

1. Sri Paravaikkarasu:

   Jet fuel demand will be strong in the coming years and Asia will be a main market, with resilient growth in passenger air traffic and cargo needs, the pickup in aviation activities and relatively lower fuel costs will underpin demand expansion.

2. Leah Shahum:

   No one is against zero traffic deaths. That said, the reality is that behaviors can be hard to change. There will likely be more pushback.

3. Orland Park Mayor Keith Pekau:

   Last year we removed a criminal off the street with an illegal gun every five days. That doesn't hit the index crimes because they haven't committed one yet, because of all the things we use -- we use a lot of technology to identify stolen cars, and they're coming into town, so they can steal in town, but we still managed to catch them with traffic stops. It's amazing how many people leave drugs and guns in plain sight, so obviously, that gives you an opportunity to search the vehicle and find things.

4. House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy:

   They were warned that this bridge where these people are crossing, at this exact spot there was an uptick in traffic and the traffic continued to go up, and they were warned they needed to prepare, they needed to put operations in place to deal with a large influx of people, and they didn’t, now we do not have that secondary protection, we don’t have that strategy and depth, and the agency made this decision because they failed to prepare for what was coming.

5. Airservices Australia:

   Air Traffic Control in Sydney are now processing arrivals. Aircraft are landing albeit a slower rate. Nil departures at this time.

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