| dealings traffic | social or verbal interchange (usually followed by `with') |
| traffic control | control of the flow of traffic in a building or a city |
| traffic | buying and selling, especially illicit trade |
drug traffic
drug trafficking
narcotraffic | traffic in illegal drugs |
slave trade
slave traffic | traffic in slaves, especially in Black Africans transported to America in the th to th centuries |
| staff | a strong rod or stick with a specialized utilitarian purpose, he walked with the help of a wooden staff |
traffic circle
circle rotary
roundabout | a road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island, the accident blocked all traffic at the rotary |
traffic island
safety island
safety isle
safety zone | a curbed area in a roadway from which traffic is excluded, provides safe area for pedestrians |
| traffic lane | a lane of a main road that is defined by painted lines, that car is in the wrong traffic lane |
staff
stave | (music) the system of five horizontal lines on which the musical notes are written |
| staff line | any of the horizontal marks comprising a staff |
treble clef
treble staff
G clef | a clef that puts the G above middle C on the second line of a staff |
traffic light
traffic signal
stoplight | a visual signal to control the flow of traffic at intersections |
| staff | a rod carried as a symbol |
| 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 |
bread
breadstuff staff of life | food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked |
personnel department
personnel office
personnel staff office | the department responsible for hiring and training and placing employees and for setting policies for personnel management |
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Joint Chiefs | the executive agency that advises the President on military questions, composed of the chiefs of the United States Army and the United States Navy and the United States Air Force and the commandant of the United States Marine Corps |
traffic jam
snarl-up | a number of vehicles blocking one another until they can scarcely move |
staff
faculty | the body of teachers and administrators at a school, the dean addressed the letter to the entire staff of the university |
| traffic court | a court that has power to prosecute for traffic offenses |
office
office staff | professional or clerical workers in an office, the whole office was late the morning of the blizzard |
| research staff | a group of associated research workers in a university or library or laboratory |
| sales staff | those in a business who are responsible for sales |
| security staff | those in an organization responsible for preventing spying or theft |
service staff
maintenance staff | those in a business responsible for maintaining the physical plant |
| general staff | military officers assigned to assist a senior officer in planning military policy |
| headquarters staff | military staff stationed at headquarters |
| traffic | the aggregation of things (pedestrians or vehicles) coming and going in a particular locality during a specified period of time |
| air traffic | traffic created by the movement of aircraft |
| commuter traffic | traffic created by people going to or returning from work |
pedestrian traffic
foot traffic | people coming and going on foot |
vehicular traffic
vehicle traffic | the aggregation of vehicles coming and going in a particular locality |
automobile traffic
car traffic | cars coming and going |
| bicycle traffic | bicycles coming and going |
| bus traffic | buses coming and going |
| truck traffic | trucks coming and going |
| staff | personnel who assist their superior in carrying out an assigned task, the hospital has an excellent nursing staff, the general relied on his staff to make routine decisions |
traffic pattern
approach pattern
pattern | the path that is prescribed for an airplane that is preparing to land at an airport, the traffic patterns around O'Hare are very crowded, they stayed in the pattern until the fog lifted |
half-mast
half-staff | a position some distance below the top of a mast to which a flag is lowered in mourning or to signal distress |
| chief of staff | the senior officer of a service of the armed forces |
staff member
staffer | an employee who is a member of a staff of workers (especially a member of the staff that works for the President of the United States) |
| staff officer | a commissioned officer assigned to a military commander's staff |
| staff sergeant | a noncommissioned officer ranking above corporal and below sergeant first class in the Army or Marines or above airman st class in the Air Force |
| traffic cop | a policeman who controls the flow of automobile traffic |
ocotillo
coachwhip
Jacob's staff
vine cactus
Fouquieria splendens | desert shrub of southwestern United States and Mexico having slender naked spiny branches that after the rainy season put forth foliage and clusters of red flowers |
Celastraceae
family Celastraceae
spindle-tree family
staff-tree family | trees and shrubs and woody vines usually having brightolored fruits |
| staff tree | any small tree or twining shrub of the genus Celastrus |
bittersweet American bittersweet
climbing bittersweet
false bittersweet
staff vine
waxwork
shrubby bittersweet
Celastrus scandens | twining shrub of North America having yellow capsules enclosing scarlet seeds |
| staff | building material consisting of plaster and hair, used to cover external surfaces of temporary structure (as at an exposition) or for decoration |