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

Any unit of the total obtained by adding the passenger miles and ton miles in a railroad's transportation for a given period; -- a term and practice of restricted or erroneous usage.

Capable of being disposed of in traffic; marketable. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

One who traffics, or carries on commerce; a trader; a merchant.

Destitute of traffic, or trade.

Mutual trade of traffic.

A traffic in bills of exchange (see Arbitration of Exchange); also, a traffic in stocks which bear differing values at the same time in different markets.

sel of the largest size. Where your argosies with portly sail . . . Do overpeer the petty traffickers. Shak.

as a member of a company, keeps an establishment for the deposit or loan of money, or for traffic in money, bills of exchange, etc.

To traffic or trade, by exchanging one commodity for another, in distinction from a sale and purchase, in which money is paid for the commodities transferred; to truck.

Financial dealings; buying and selling; traffic in general; mercantile transactions. It seldom happens that men of a studious turn acquire any degree of reputation for their knowledge of business. Bp. Popteus.

Traffic; bargaining. [Obs.] Spenser.

An unlawful bargain; traffic in which money is exported as discount. [Obs.] Bacon.

Of or pertaining to a colony; as, colonial rights, traffic, wars.

merchandise, on a large scale, between different places or communities; extended trade or traffic. The public becomes powerful in proportion to the opulence and extensive commerce of private men. Hume.

; as, a communicating artery. Subjects suffered to communicate and to have intercourse of traffic. Hakluyt. The whole body is nothing but a system of such canals, which all communicate with one another. Arbutnot.

Illegal or prohobited traffic. Persons the most bound in duty to prevent contraband, and the most interested in the seizures. Burke.

Traffic in contraband gods; smuggling.

One who traffic illegaly; a smuggler.

Commerce; intercourse; traffic. [Obs.] All traffic and mutual conversation. Hakluyt.