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/tɾafiˈkante/
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Translation
dealer, trafficker
Word origin
From traficar ('to trade, to traffic') plus the agent suffix -nte, from Italian trafficare ('to trade'), of uncertain origin. The same root gives English 'traffic'.
- Origin
- Italian
- Root
- trafficare
- English cognates
- traffic
Grammar
Gendercommon
Pluraltraficantes
Examples
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The police arrested a trafficker at the border.
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The dealer hid the goods in wooden crates.
secretas .
The traffickers used secret routes through the mountains.
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That man turned out to be a much-wanted trafficker.
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How did they manage to capture the trafficker?
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