trafficking
noun
- 1
A criminal activity in which people are recruited, harboured, transported, bought, or kidnapped to serve an exploitative purpose, such as sexual slavery, forced labor, or child soldiery.
verb
- 1
To pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to buy or sell goods
- 2
To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain.
- 3
To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration.
Synonyms
noun
- 1
The distribution of illegal drugs.
- 2
The smuggling of illegal arms.
- 3
The movement of an enzyme (or other protein) through tissue.
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