dealings traffic | social or verbal interchange (usually followed by `with') |
patrol | the activity of going around or through an area at regular intervals for security purposes |
airborne patrol | a patrol provided by aircraft |
round-thelock patrol | a continuous nonstop patrol |
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 |
cruiser police cruiser patrol car police car prowl car squad car | a car in which policemen cruise the streets, equipped with radiotelephonic communications to headquarters |
patrol boat patrol ship | a vessel assigned to patrol an area |
police van police wagon paddy wagon patrol wagon wagon black Maria | van used by police to transport prisoners |
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 |
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 |
United States Border Patrol US Border Patrol | the mobile law enforcement arm of the Immigration and Naturalization Service that detects and prevents illegal entry of aliens into the United States |
traffic jam snarl-up | a number of vehicles blocking one another until they can scarcely move |
shore patrol | the military police of the navy |
patrol | a detachment used for security or reconnaissance |
border patrol | a group of officers who patrol the borders of a country |
harbor patrol | patrol of officers who police a harbor area |
patrol | a group that goes through a region at regular intervals for the purpose of security |
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 |
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 |
traffic cop | a policeman who controls the flow of automobile traffic |
traffic | trade or deal a commodity, They trafficked with us for gold |
traffic | deal illegally, traffic drugs |
patrol police | maintain the security of by carrying out a patrol |