What's the difference between commerce and traffic?

Commerce


Definition:

  • (n.) The exchange or buying and selling of commodities; esp. the exchange of merchandise, on a large scale, between different places or communities; extended trade or traffic.
  • (n.) Social intercourse; the dealings of one person or class in society with another; familiarity.
  • (n.) Sexual intercourse.
  • (n.) A round game at cards, in which the cards are subject to exchange, barter, or trade.
  • (v. i.) To carry on trade; to traffic.
  • (v. i.) To hold intercourse; to commune.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This has "nothing to do with any of our businesses," Koch spokespeople were quoted as telling the congressman's staff members in a May 20 letter that Waxman sent to Reps. Fred Upton (R-Mich.), the Energy and Commerce Committee chair, and Ed Whitfield (R-Ky.), who chairs the Energy and Power Subcommittee.
  • (2) The British Chambers of Commerce warned the situation was unlikely to improve while banks continued to impose high charges for overdrafts and loans.
  • (3) In his UN general assembly address Tuesday, US president Obama referred to the "extraordinary potential" of the Iranian people "in commerce and culture; in science and education."
  • (4) Oregon representative Greg Walden, chair of the House energy and commerce committee, which approved the bill on a party-line vote, dismissed the opinions of such groups, which include the AARP, the American Hospital Association and the American Medical Association, as part of a “medical-industrial complex”.
  • (5) The Greek government’s defiant stance came as the head of the Hellenic Chambers of Commerce , Constantine Michalos, said he did not believe Greece’s banks would be able to reopen next Tuesday without further funding, telling the Daily Telegraph he had been told cash reserves were down to €500m.
  • (6) Ulivarri, the president of the Rio Bravo chamber of commerce, knew that the body might disappear for good if he did not move quickly, but he did not want to risk a confrontation with either gang, who are both known to monitor the road.
  • (7) David Cameron (@David_Cameron) Royal Mail privatisation is about delivering investment, ensuring a 1st class service that's vital #forhardworkingpeople September 12, 2013 11.33am BST The British Chambers of Commerce is more cautious than the IoD.
  • (8) "It's similar to commerce, in that there's an end-product that is being shared.
  • (9) The 10,000-sq ft gatehouse has a 12-seat cinema and staff quarters, and sits opposite the home of the current commerce secretary, Penny Pritzker.
  • (10) The authors have studied the illegal commerce of alcohol in popular urban communities.
  • (11) But in China, the retail market developed in parallel with e-commerce, and the threat looks very different.
  • (12) Content in the app is a mixture of episode descriptions, quizzes, tweets, cast information and playable clips of every song on the soundtrack, with links to buy song downloads, TV episodes and merchandise – the latter through a partnership with e-commerce firm Delivery Agent.
  • (13) The head of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) yesterday urged diplomats to stop bickering about a mini package of liberalisation designed to boost global commerce and warned of serious damage to the 20-year-old institution if last-ditch talks failed.
  • (14) However, John Longworth, the director general of the British Chambers of Commerce, called on the government to act on Beecroft's proposal "without delay".
  • (15) California Consumers Against Higher Prices (CCAHP), a coalition that includes the California Restaurant Association and the California Chamber of Commerce, formed in early March to oppose a proposed ballot initiative that would have also sought to increase the minimum wage to $15 per hour.
  • (16) Just beyond the cordon, everyday life in one of the capital’s busiest areas for tourism and other commerce continued as best it could, with the addition of TV news crews gathered as close as possible to the scene, mainly by Lambeth Bridge, to the west of parliament, and just over the river on the South Bank.
  • (17) The US is not a claimant but says it has an interest in maintaining peace and stability there, and freedom of navigation and commerce.
  • (18) A study by India's Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry said that foreign tourist visits to India had dropped 25% in the three months after the rape and murder of the Delhi woman.
  • (19) The Commerce Department said GDP increased by a 3.7% seasonally adjusted annual rate in the second quarter of 2015, up from the initial estimate of 2.3% growth.
  • (20) It used to be that when it was cold, they would just say that there are indoor jobs for cold weather, and he would work year-round,” said Gertz, who lives in Commerce City, Colorado, just outside Denver.

Traffic


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to buy or sell goods; to barter; to trade.
  • (v. i.) To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain.
  • (v. t.) To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration.
  • (v.) Commerce, either by barter or by buying and selling; interchange of goods and commodities; trade.
  • (v.) Commodities of the market.
  • (v.) The business done upon a railway, steamboat line, etc., with reference to the number of passengers or the amount of freight carried.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Road traffic accidents (RTAs) comprised 40% and ischaemic heart disease (IHD) 13% of the total.
  • (2) The discussion on topics like post-schooling and rehabilitation of motorists has intensified the contacts between advocates of traffic law and traffic psychologists in the last years.
  • (3) The cause has been innumerable "VIP movements", as journeys undertaken by those considered important enough for all other traffic to be held up, sometimes for hours, are described in South Asian bureaucratic speak.
  • (4) Measurement of traffic through late endosomes, which are closely related to the organelle in which antigen processing occurs, has, to date, required large numbers of cells and therefore has not been possible for dendritic cells.
  • (5) The distinguishing feature of this study is the simultaneous measurement of sympathetic firing and norepinephrine spillover in the same organ, the kidney, under conditions of intact sympathetic impulse traffic.
  • (6) A traumatic factor in the aetiology of the AVM was also discussed, since the patient had had two preceding episodes of traffic accidents with cranial and lumbar injury.
  • (7) Slager, 33, was a patrolman first class for the North Charleston police department when he fatally shot Scott, 50, following a struggle that led from a traffic stop when the officer noticed that one of Scott’s car tail lights was broken.
  • (8) 75% of Bundles site traffic is coming from returning users."
  • (9) He added that 45% of traffic to Local World's extensive portfolio of websites – 76 newspaper sites, 26 This is … sites and 400 hyper local sites – comes from mobile devices.
  • (10) However, most deaths were due to traffic accidents.
  • (11) With an ambulance service staffed by doctors from the anaesthetic and intensive care units of the central hospitals it is possible to provide prehospital treatment in 70% of all severe traffic injuries in the County of Ringkøbing.
  • (12) They didn’t know the dangers that they were putting myself, themselves and passing air traffic in.
  • (13) In Experiment 1 subjects viewed a slide sequence depicting a traffic accident.
  • (14) Two hundred and forty-four motor car occupants involved in road traffic accidents, who sustained injuries sufficiently severe to require admission to hospital, have been investigated in order to assess the value of seat belts.
  • (15) But should a traffic officer go to jail for neglecting a dangerous road, or a doctor who misses a critical symptom, or a judge who lets a murderer go free?
  • (16) The plane lost contact with air traffic control eight minutes after it left the western town of Pokhara on its way to Jomsom on Wednesday morning.
  • (17) To examine the molecular traffic and sites of metabolism of PAF released in the vascular wall, we used a coculture system in which endothelial cells are grown on micropore filters suspended over confluent cultures of vascular smooth muscle cells.
  • (18) Jenny Jones, a Green party member of the London Assembly who has campaigned to make cycling safer, said she had spoken to the deputy head of the Met's traffic unit to express her worries about the operation.
  • (19) Analysis of time-dependent development of various events in man's life (diseases, traumas traffic accidents, normal delivery, death because of diseases) and physiological processes allowed to reveal the presence of intradian cycle in their dynamics with the period about 4-6 hs.
  • (20) In five of the six cases a violent contusion in the trochanter region was involved as a result of a fall on a hard surface or a traffic accident.