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trafficked
verb as in buy and sell; do business
Example Sentences
And he also fears the Kw’tsán monument could curtail access to the heavily trafficked Glamis and Imperial sand dunes — even though they lie outside the envisioned boundaries — due to “spillover management effects.”
If they ended up working for the smuggling gangs in the UK in order to pay for their journey and to pay off their debts then they would, indeed, have been trafficked.
He told the official he had been trafficked to the UK in order to work for a gang to pay off his debt.
It is estimated that between 1500 and 1800 around 12 -15 million people were trafficked from African countries to be used as enslaved labour in the Caribbean, North, Central and South America.
The judge rejected the suggestion that she had been trafficked to Northern Ireland but noted that she did "arrive illegally, and it may well be she was smuggled in."
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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