commerce vs traffic

traffic vs commerce

commerce and traffic both are nouns.

commerce is not a verb while traffic is a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
commerce	Yes	No	No	No
traffic	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, traffic is a hyponym of commerce; that is, traffic is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than commerce:

commerce: transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services)
traffic: buying and selling; especially illicit trade

Other hyponyms of commerce include trading, trade, e-commerce, exchange, interchange, initial offering, initial public offering, IPO, business, business enterprise, commercial enterprise, carriage trade, importation, importing, exportation, exporting, marketing, distribution, marketing, merchandising, selling, defrayal, defrayment, payment, evasion, nonpayment.

commerce (noun)	traffic (noun)
transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services)	buying and selling; especially illicit trade
social exchange, especially of opinions, attitudes, etc.	social or verbal interchange (usually followed by `with')
	the amount of activity over a communication system during a given period of time
	the aggregation of things (pedestrians or vehicles) coming and going in a particular locality during a specified period of time

commerce (verb)	traffic (verb)
	deal illegally
	trade or deal a commodity

Difference between commerce and traffic

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