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Meaning of trafficking

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

trafficking

noun

Definitions

  1. A criminal activity in which people are recruited, harboured, transported, bought, or kidnapped to serve an exploitative purpose, such as sexual slavery, forced labor, or child soldiery.

verb

Definitions

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

    Synonyms:trade
  2. To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain.

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

noun

Definitions

  1. The distribution of illegal drugs.

  2. The smuggling of illegal arms.

  3. The movement of an enzyme (or other protein) through tissue.