air traffic

noun

aircraft moving in flight or on airport runways.

Nearby words

air switch, air syringe, air system, air taxi, air terminal, air traffic, air turbine, air twist, air valve, air varié, air vesicle

Origin of air traffic

First recorded in 1910–15

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Examples from the Web for air traffic

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|DAILY BEAST
Few occupations carry the unique sort of physiological assault that air-traffic control does.
An Air Traffic Controller Speaks|Bob Richards|April 30, 2011|DAILY BEAST
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|DAILY BEAST
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|DAILY BEAST

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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