| dealings traffic | social or verbal interchange (usually followed by `with') |
| road | a way or means to achieve something, the road to fame |
| royal road | an auspicious way or means to achieve something, the royal road to success |
on the road
on tour | travelling about, they took the show on the road, they lost all their games on the road |
away game
road game | a game played away from home |
| road show | a show on tour |
| road construction | the construction of roads |
| 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 |
| road rage | violence exhibited by drivers in traffic |
access road
slip road | a short road giving access to an expressway, in Britain they call an access road a slip road |
| arterial road | a major or main route |
beltway
bypass
ring road
ringway | a highway that encircles an urban area so that traffic does not have to pass through the center |
bridle path
bridle road | a path suitable for riding or leading horses (but not for cars) |
driveway
drive private road | a road leading up to a private house, they parked in the driveway |
frontage road
service road | a local road that runs parallel to an expressway and allows local traffic to gain access to property |
highroad
trunk road | a highway |
highway
main road | a major road for any form of motor transport |
local road
local street | a street that is primarily used to gain access to the property bordering it |
| post road | a road over which mail is carried |
road
route | an open way (generally public) for travel or transportation |
| road map | a map showing roads (for automobile travel) |
| road surface | the paved surface of a paved roadway |
| side road | a minor road branching off of a main road |
| skid road | a road made of logs on which freshly cut timber can be hauled |
steamroller
road roller | vehicle equipped with heavy wide smooth rollers for compacting roads and pavements |
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 |
turnpike
toll road | an expressway on which tolls are collected |
| road sense | good judgment in avoiding trouble or accidents on the road |
| road test | a test to insure that a vehicle is roadworthy |
road map
guideline | a detailed plan or explanation to guide you in setting standards or determining a course of action, the president said he had a road map for normalizing relations with Vietnam |
traffic light
traffic signal
stoplight | a visual signal to control the flow of traffic at intersections |
| 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 |
| road to Damascus | a sudden turning point in a person's life (similar to the sudden conversion of the Apostle Paul on the road from Jerusalem to Damascus of arrest Christians) |
traffic jam
snarl-up | a number of vehicles blocking one another until they can scarcely move |
| road gang | a gang of road workers |
| traffic court | a court that has power to prosecute for traffic offenses |
| 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 |