| dealings traffic | social or verbal interchange (usually followed by `with') |
| direct primary | a primary where voters directly select the candidates who will run for office |
| direct flight | a flight with one or more intermediate stops but no change of aircraft |
| foreign direct investment | a joint venture between a foreign company and a United States company |
| direct support | a mission requiring one force to support another specific force and authorizing it to answer directly the supported force's request for assistance |
| direct supporting fire | fire delivered in support of part of a force (as opposed to general supporting fire delivered in support of the force as a whole) |
| direct fire | fire delivered on a target that is visible to the person aiming it |
| traffic control | control of the flow of traffic in a building or a city |
| foreign direct investment | investing in United States businesses by foreign citizens (often involves stock ownership of the business) |
| direct marketing | marketing via a promotion delivered directly to the individual prospective customer |
| 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 |
| direct action | a protest action by labor or minority groups to obtain their demands |
Joint Direct Attack Munition
JDAM | a pinpoint bomb guidance device that can be strapped to a gravity bomb thus converting dumb bombs into smart bombs |
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 |
positive correlation
direct correlation | a correlation in which large values of one variable are associated with large values of the other and small with small, the correlation coefficient is between
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| direct mail | advertising sent directly to prospective customers via the mail |
| direct antonym | antonyms that are commonly associated (e.g., `wet' and `dry') |
direct object
object of the verb | the object that receives the direct action of the verb |
| direct evidence | evidence (usually the testimony of a witness) directly related to the fact in dispute |
traffic light
traffic signal
stoplight | a visual signal to control the flow of traffic at intersections |
direct discourse
direct quotation | a report of the exact words used in a discourse (e.g., he said `I am a fool') |
| direct examination | (law) the initial questioning of a witness by the party that called the witness |
| 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 |
| direct tide | the occurrence of high tide on one side of the earth coinciding with high tide on the opposite side |
| direct sum | a union of two disjoint sets in which every element is the sum of an element from each of the disjoint sets |
| direct mailer | a distributor who uses direct mail to sell merchandise |
traffic jam
snarl-up | a number of vehicles blocking one another until they can scarcely move |
| direct-grant school | formerly a school that charged tuition fees and also received government grants in return for admitting certain non-paying students who were nominated by the local authorities |
| 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 |
| direct transmission | a transmission mechanism in which the infectious agent is transferred directly into the body via touching or biting or kissing or sexual intercourse or by droplets entering the eye or nose or mouth |
| traffic cop | a policeman who controls the flow of automobile traffic |
direct current
DC
direct electric current | an electric current that flows in one direction steadily |
| direct tax | a tax paid directly by the person or organization on whom it is levied |
direct trust
express trust | a trust created by the free and deliberate act of the parties involved (usually on the basis of written documentation) |
| direct loan | a loan by a lender to a customer without the use of a third party, direct lending gives the lender greater discretion in making loans |
contrast
direct contrast | the opposition or dissimilarity of things that are compared, in contrast to, by contrast |