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masculine

/tʁa.fik/

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Translation

traffic; trafficking

Word origin

From Italian traffico ('trade'), from trafficare. French kept both the honest sense of movement and goods and the shady sense of dealing.

Origin: Italian
Root: traffico
English cognates: traffic

Grammar

Gendermasculine

Pluraltrafics

Examples

The traffic has been at a standstill since this morning.

The police are investigating an arms racket.

He was arrested for drug trafficking.

Rackets of every kind do well round here.

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With this traffic, we shall be late.

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This word is part of lesson 47.