air traffic

noun

aircraft moving in flight or on airport runways.

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Origin of air traffic

First recorded in 1910–15

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Examples from the Web for air traffic

Contemporary Examples

Did you see how they responded to the furloughing of the air-traffic controllers?
Olympia Snowe on Her New Book, Overcoming Partisanship & More
Lloyd Grove
May 15, 2013
Few occupations carry the unique sort of physiological assault that air-traffic control does.
An Air Traffic Controller Speaks
Bob Richards
April 30, 2011
The notion of napping on the job is, for virtually all air-traffic controllers, preposterous.
An Air Traffic Controller Speaks
Bob Richards
April 30, 2011
Then a Republican fired all the air-traffic controllers, a Democrat gave us NAFTA, and millions of jobs were moved overseas.
Happy F---ing Labor Day, Rahm!
Michael Moore
September 7, 2010

Historical Examples

By degrees, as air-traffic grows, new laws and regulations will need to be applied.
The Aeroplane
Claude Grahame-White and Harry Harper

British Dictionary definitions for air traffic

air traffic

noun

the organized movement of aircraft within a given space
the passengers, cargo, or mail carried by aircraft

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