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traffic manager

American  

noun

  1. a person who supervises the transportation of goods for an employer.

  2. a person in a transportation company who schedules space, for freight or passengers.

  3. (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

Nearby, Kelsi Morse, 27, a White female asexual queer advertising traffic manager, was giggling with her friend, Bianca Phipps, 26, a Latino trans nonbinary queer poet and cancer lab research assistant.

From Washington Post • Dec. 29, 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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