English-French translations for traffic

• trafic
  Ce système européen de gestion du trafic ferroviaire s'appelle l'ERTMS - European Rail Traffic Management System. The system is known as ERTMS - European Rail Traffic Management System.
  Le trafic aérien est équivalent au trafic maritime. Air traffic is equivalent to maritime traffic.
  Tant le trafic routier que le trafic aérien vont trop loin. Both road traffic and air traffic are going too far.
• circulation
  D'année en année, la circulation sur les routes européennes s'accroît. Road traffic in Europe is increasing each year.
  Ces corridors de circulation se retrouvent à travers toute l'Europe. These traffic corridors are found all over Europe.
  - Monsieur le Président, nous payons un lourd tribut à la circulation routière. Mr President, we pay a high price for road traffic.
• trafiquer
• traité
  Les trafiquants d'êtres humains doivent être traités de façon aussi sévère que les trafiquants de drogue. Those who traffic in human beings must therefore be punished as severely as those who deal in drugs.
  Il n'y a jamais eu, depuis la signature du Traité, de transfert de trafic routier vers le rail. The fact is that in not one of the years since the Treaty was signed has any traffic been transferred from road to rail.
• traite
  Il leur est tout simplement trop facile de soumettre à nouveau ces enfants à la traite. They find it just too easy to re-traffic these children.
  Monsieur le Président, le rapport traite du problème de l'accroissement du trafic aérien. Mr President, the report deals with the problem of increasing air traffic.
  500 000 personnes victimes de la traite des êtres humains entrent chaque année en Europe occidentale. Some 500 000 victims of the traffic in human beings arrive each year in Western Europe.

Definition of traffic

• Pedestrians or vehicles on roads, or the flux or passage thereof
• Commercial transportation or exchange of goods, or the movement of passengers or people
• Illegal trade or exchange of goods, often drugs
• Commodities of the market
• To pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to buy or sell goods
• To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain

Examples

• The traffic is slow during rush hour

Related words

• trafficking
• trafficker
• trafficator
• traffic-light
• antitrafficking
• traffic congestion traffic jam
• traffic lights
• traffic signals
• traffic sign