dealings traffic | social or verbal interchange (usually followed by `with') |
separation | the act of dividing or disconnecting |
racket fraudulent scheme illegitimate enterprise | an illegal enterprise (such as extortion or fraud or drug peddling or prostitution) carried on for profit |
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 |
separation | the social act of separating or parting company, the separation of church and state |
legal separation separation | (law) the cessation of cohabitation of man and wife (either by mutual agreement or under a court order) |
separation | sorting one thing from others, the separation of wheat from chaff, the separation of mail by postal zones |
grade separation | a crossing that uses an underpass or overpass |
skeen arch skene arch scheme arch diminished arch | an arch whose height is less than half its width |
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 |
interval separation | the distance between things, fragile items require separation and cushioning |
outline schema scheme | a schematic or preliminary plan |
scheme strategy | an elaborate and systematic plan of action |
pump-and-dump scheme | an illegal scheme for making money by manipulating stock prices, the schemer persuades other people to buy the stock and then sells it himself as soon as the price of the stock rises |
pyramid scheme | a fraudulent scheme in which people are recruited to make payments to the person who recruited them while expecting to receive payments from the persons they recruit, when the number of new recruits fails to sustain the hierarchical payment structure the scheme collapses with most of the participants losing the money they put in |
schema scheme | an internal representation of the world, an organization of concepts and actions that can be revised by new information about the world |
legal separation judicial separation | a judicial decree regulating the rights and responsibilities of a married couple living apart |
dodge dodging scheme | a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery |
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 |
separation | the termination of employment (by resignation or dismissal) |
separation breakup detachment | coming apart |
color scheme colour scheme | a planned combination of colors, the color scheme for this room was determined by an interior decorator |
traffic jam snarl-up | a number of vehicles blocking one another until they can scarcely move |
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 |
system scheme | a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole, a vast system of production and distribution and consumption keep the country 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 |
separation | the space where a division or parting occurs, he hid in the separation between walls |
traffic cop | a policeman who controls the flow of automobile traffic |
binding energy separation energy | the energy required to separate particles from a molecule or atom or nucleus, equals the mass defect |
incentive program incentive scheme | a formal scheme for inducing someone (as employees) to do something |
separation | the state of lacking unity |
scheme intrigue connive | form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner |
scheme | devise a system or form a scheme for |
traffic | trade or deal a commodity, They trafficked with us for gold |
traffic | deal illegally, traffic drugs |