| Main Entry: | traffic |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | coming and going |
Synonyms: |
cartage, flux, freight, gridlock, influx, jam, movement, parking lot, passage, passengers, rush hour, service, shipment, transfer, transit, transport, transportation, travel, truckage, vehicles |
| Main Entry: | traffic |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | buying and selling |
Synonyms: |
barter, business, closeness, commerce, communication, communion, connection, custom, dealing, dealings, doings, exchange, familiarity, industry, interchange, intercourse, intimacy, merchantry, patronage, peddling, relations, relationship, soliciting, trade, transactions, truck |
| Main Entry: | traffic |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | buy and sell; do business |
Synonyms: |
bargain, barter, black-market, bootleg, connect with, contact, deal, deal in, dicker, exchange, fence, handle, have dealings, have transaction, horse trade, interact, interface, make a deal, market, moonshine, negotiate, network, peddle, push, reach out, relate, shove, swap, touch, touch base, trade, truck, work out |
| Main Entry: | bargain |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | negotiate terms of sale or agreement |
Synonyms: |
agree, arrange, barter, buy, compromise, confer, contract, covenant, deal, dicker, do business, haggle, make terms, palter, promise, sell, stipulate, trade, traffic, transact |
| Main Entry: | barter |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | trade goods or services |
Synonyms: |
bargain, exchange, haggle, swap, trade, traffic, truck |
| Main Entry: | business |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | commerce, trade |
Synonyms: |
affairs, bargaining, barter, buying and selling, capital and labor, commercialism, contracts, deal, dealings, exchange, free enterprise, game, industrialism, industry, manufacturing, market, merchandising, production and distribution, racket, sales, selling, trading, traffic, transaction, undertaking |
| Notes: | the industry is the movie business and the business is the television industry |
| Main Entry: | commerce |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | buying and selling |
Synonyms: |
business, dealing, dealings, economics, exchange, industry, marketing, merchandising, merchantry, retailing, trade, traffic, truck, wholesaling |
| Main Entry: | deal |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | do business |
Synonyms: |
bargain, barter, bicker, buy and sell, dicker, hammer out deal, handle, horse trade, knock down price, negotiate, sell, stock, swap, trade, traffic, treat, work out deal |
Antonyms: |
deny, refuse |
| Main Entry: | dealings |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | business relations |
Synonyms: |
affairs, balls in air, business, commerce, concerns, doings, intercourse, irons in fire, matters, proceedings, ropes, sale, strings, things, trade, traffic, transactions, truck, wire pulling, wires |
| Main Entry: | exchange |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | trade; deal |
Synonyms: |
barter, buying and selling, castling, change, commerce, commutation, conversion, correspondence, dealing, interchange, interdependence, interrelation, network, quid pro quo, rearrangement, reciprocation, reciprocity, replacement, revision, shift, shuffle, shuffling, substitution, supplanting, supplantment, swap, switch, tit for tat, traffic, transaction, transfer, transposing, transposition, truck |