English Dictionary

traffic

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈtɹæfɪk/

動詞

自動詞 他動詞

(intransitive) To pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to buy or sell goods / (intransitive) To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain.

日本語の意味

商品や財貨を、物や金銭と引き換えに売買する / 商品・財貨の流通や取引を行う / 低い価格や際どい条件で値段交渉（売買）をする

He used to traffic in antique coins long before it became a regulated business.

彼はそれが規制された事業になるずっと前から骨董のコインを売買していた。

意味（1）

(intransitive) To pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to buy or sell goods

意味（2）

(intransitive) To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain.

意味（3）

(transitive) To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration.

A Libyan longing took us, and we would have chosen, if we could, to bear a strand of grotesque beads, or a handful of brazen gauds, and traffic them for some sable maid with crisp locks, whom, uncoffling from the captive train beside the desert, we should make to do our general housework forever, through the right of lawful purchase.

traffics （ present singular third-person ）

trafficking （ participle present ）

trafficked （ participle past ）

trafficked （ past ）