| smuggler | | |
| n. (person) | 1. contrabandist, moon curser, moon-curser, runner, smuggler | someone who imports or exports without paying duties. |
| ~ coyote | someone who smuggles illegal immigrants into the United States (usually across the Mexican border). |
| ~ criminal, crook, felon, malefactor, outlaw | someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime. |
| ~ arms-runner, gunrunner | a smuggler of guns. |
| ~ rumrunner | someone who illegally smuggles liquor across a border. |
| trafficker | | |
| n. (person) | 1. marketer, seller, trafficker, vender, vendor | someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money. |
| ~ booking clerk, ticket agent | someone who sells tickets (e.g., theater seats or travel accommodations). |
| ~ cosmetician | someone who sells or applies cosmetics. |
| ~ flower girl | a woman who sells flowers in the street. |
| ~ fruiterer | a person who sells fruit. |
| ~ cheap-jack, huckster | a seller of shoddy goods. |
| ~ merchandiser, merchant | a businessperson engaged in retail trade. |
| ~ hawker, packman, peddler, pedlar, pitchman | someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals). |
| ~ selling agent | someone who sells goods (on commission) for others. |
| ~ dealer | a seller of illicit goods.; "a dealer in stolen goods" |
| ~ underseller | a seller that sells at a lower price than others do.; "he went all over town looking for undersellers" |
| traffic | | |
| n. (group) | 1. traffic | the aggregation of things (pedestrians or vehicles) coming and going in a particular locality during a specified period of time. |
| ~ aggregation, collection, accumulation, assemblage | several things grouped together or considered as a whole. |
| ~ air traffic | traffic created by the movement of aircraft. |
| ~ commuter traffic | traffic created by people going to or returning from work. |
| ~ foot traffic, pedestrian traffic | people coming and going on foot. |
| ~ vehicle traffic, vehicular traffic | the aggregation of vehicles coming and going in a particular locality. |
| n. (act) | 2. traffic | buying and selling; especially illicit trade. |
| ~ commerce, commercialism, mercantilism | transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services). |
| ~ drug traffic, drug trafficking, narcotraffic | traffic in illegal drugs. |
| ~ barratry, simony | traffic in ecclesiastical offices or preferments. |
| ~ slave trade, slave traffic | traffic in slaves; especially in Black Africans transported to America in the 16th to 19th centuries. |
| n. (communication) | 3. traffic | the amount of activity over a communication system during a given period of time.; "heavy traffic overloaded the trunk lines"; "traffic on the internet is lightest during the night" |
| ~ communicating, communication | the activity of communicating; the activity of conveying information.; "they could not act without official communication from Moscow" |
| n. (act) | 4. dealings, traffic | social or verbal interchange (usually followed by `with'). |
| ~ interchange, give-and-take, reciprocation | mutual interaction; the activity of reciprocating or exchanging (especially information). |
| ~ relation | (usually plural) mutual dealings or connections among persons or groups.; "international relations" |
| v. (possession) | 5. traffic | deal illegally.; "traffic drugs" |
| ~ crime, criminal offence, criminal offense, law-breaking, offense, offence | (criminal law) an act punishable by law; usually considered an evil act.; "a long record of crimes" |
| ~ merchandise, trade | engage in the trade of.; "he is merchandising telephone sets" |
| v. (possession) | 6. traffic | trade or deal a commodity.; "They trafficked with us for gold" |
| ~ commerce, commercialism, mercantilism | transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services). |
| ~ merchandise, trade | engage in the trade of.; "he is merchandising telephone sets" |
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