traffic manager
Americannoun
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a person who supervises the transportation of goods for an employer.
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a person in a transportation company who schedules space, for freight or passengers.
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(in business management) an office employee, especially an executive, responsible for routing items of business within a company for appropriate action by various departments.
Etymology
Origin of traffic manager
First recorded in 1860–65
Example Sentences
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Ian Bennett from Balfour Beatty, who is the traffic manager at the M25 and A3 roadworks scheme in Surrey, says he has suffered years of abuse from drivers.
From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2024
The SynGAP protein appears to act as a traffic manager, they say, directing where and what brain proteins are at synapses.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 29, 2024
“Please avoid traveling to downtown Los Angeles,” Caltrans district traffic manager Dyari Ahmed said during a Friday morning news briefing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2023
In 2009, Maryland began resurfacing a section of New Hampshire Avenue for the first time since 1992, while also upgrading sidewalks and helping the contractor hire a traffic manager laid off from another firm.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 2, 2021
Mr. Beddoes, traffic manager of the Limerick and Waterford Railway, came to Ireland an enthusiastic Gladstonian.
From Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule by Buckley, Robert John
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