Traffic vs. Tailback

Trafficnoun

Pedestrians or vehicles on roads, or the flux or passage thereof.

Trafficnoun

Commercial transportation or exchange of goods, or the movement of passengers or people.

Trafficnoun

Illegal trade or exchange of goods, often drugs.

Trafficnoun

Exchange or flux of information, messages or data, as in a computer or telephone network.

Trafficnoun

Commodities of the market.

Trafficverb

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

Trafficverb

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

Trafficverb

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

Trafficverb

To pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to buy or sell goods; to barter; to trade.

Trafficverb

To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain.

Trafficverb

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

Trafficnoun

Commerce, either by barter or by buying and selling; interchange of goods and commodities; trade.

Trafficnoun

Commodities of the market.

Trafficnoun

The business done upon a railway, steamboat line, etc., with reference to the number of passengers or the amount of freight carried.

Trafficnoun

the aggregation of things (pedestrians or vehicles) coming and going in a particular locality during a specified period of time

Trafficnoun

buying and selling; especially illicit trade

Trafficnoun

the amount of activity over a communication system during a given period of time;

Trafficnoun

social or verbal interchange (usually followed by `with')

Trafficverb

deal illegally;

Trafficverb

trade or deal a commodity;

Traffic

Traffic on roads consists of road users including pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles, streetcars, buses and other conveyances, either singly or together, while using the public way for purposes of travel. Traffic laws are the laws which govern traffic and regulate vehicles, while rules of the road are both the laws and the informal rules that may have developed over time to facilitate the orderly and timely flow of traffic.

Tailbacknoun

(UK) A line of motor vehicles causing or the result of traffic congestion or a traffic jam; (US) backup.

Tailbacknoun

(American football) A running back or halfback who lines up furthest to the rear in an I formation.

Tailbacknoun

(football) the person who plays tailback

Tailbacknoun

the position of the offensive back on a football team who lines up farthest from the line of scrimmage