trafficking

[ traf-i-king ]
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noun
  1. the practice of dealing or trading in a commodity or service, often an illegal one: drug trafficking.

Origin of trafficking

1
First recorded in 1530–40; traffic + -ing1

Words Nearby trafficking

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How to use trafficking in a sentence

  • What he did say was, "I am putting money into your business to help your trafficking," a different thing altogether.

  • For usury and lending upon interest were forbidden by the Church, but trafficking was lawful and permitted.

  • I saw how easy it was to achieve by social trafficking what men spent lifetimes laboriously to acquire.

    The Wasted Generation | Owen Johnson
  • The trouble with shifting labor disappeared except for the liquor trafficking that always hounds every camp.

    Still Jim | Honor Willsie Morrow
  • Can anything be imagined more horrible than a free nation trafficking in the blood of its co-citizens?