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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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
Teresa Wilson, who works as a traffic manager for the Intermark Group marketing firm, still helps her husband with some of the prep work on the front end and the packaging on the back end.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 12, 2020
Gantry was back, and, in addition to a most ready availability as a social sponsor, the traffic manager was both able and willing.
From The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush by Lynde, Francis
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