trafficableadj.

1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Trafichéuole, full of trade or trafique, traficable.

1600 tr. Briefe Relation Afr. in J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. 368 These kingdomes..are very traffickable [It. mercantili]; for though the king of Fez hath no hauen of importance vpon the Mediterranean sea, neuerthelesse the English, French, and other nations traffick much to his ports vpon the Ocean.

1627 P. Hay Advt. Subj. Scotl. 28 A great Monarch hath not so good a Treasure, as trafficable Countreyes,..and Subjects vertuous, and full of Wealth: for then doe Moneyes abound.

1664 tr. Descr. Tangier 8 The fairest, fruitfullest, best inhabited, and most civil Port of all Africk; and likewise the most trafickable, as well in reference to the passage that way to the Indies, as to the Commodities there afforded.

1763 Compl. Compting-house Compan. ii. 8 The stupendious circulation of paper-property, throughout the traffficable world, by inland and foreign bills.

1649 Bp. J. Hall Resol. & Decisions i. i. 5 Money..is also, in some cases, a trafiqueable commodity: the price whereof rises, and fals.

1772 J. Swan Dissuasion from Slave Trade to Afr. 53 An infinite variety of trafficable articles, with which the present Traders are totally unacquainted.

1889 Sat. Rev. 19 Oct. 422/1 These Buckinghamshire labourers..have been taught..to regard a vote as a commodity, traffickable.

1902 New S. Wales Parl. Deb.: Legislative Assembly 5 Nov. 4177/1 The conversion of leases into conditional purchases and other traffickable land titles.

1996 C. Joubert & H. Bevers Schengen Investigated i. 9 The suspect is indeed hiding trafficable goods such as drugs or jewelry.

2007 V. O'Connor & C. Rausch Model Codes for Post-conflict Criminal Justice I. 375 Schedules also categorize drugs..—for example, a schedule may distinguish between an amount deemed to be for personal use and a trafficable amount.

1746 M. Postlethwayt National & Private Advantages Afr. Trade iii. 53 Merchants are best acquainted how to treat Merchants in their trafficable Concerns.

1786 W. Hastings Present State East Indies 70 The abundant resources of subsistence and trafficable wealth which may be drawn from the natural productions.

1845 Cornwall Chron. (Launceston, Austral.) 3 Dec. 383/1 That they [sc. the streets] will be trafficable at all, if they are permitted to remain without repair, is beyond the reach of possibility.

1867 Liverpool Mercury 18 Aug. 5/2 Some thousands of pounds are annually paid away for the purpose of keeping the streets in trafficable condition.

1889 New S. Wales Rep. Casual Labour Board Comm. 463 You could make a road, but it would never be trafficable. You could not drive along it, the grades would be too steep.

1944 Weather & Climate in France (Weather Div., U.S. Army Air Forces) 45/1 Here coarse- and medium-textured soils predominate; they are trafficable except during and immediately after heavy precipitation.

1997 Armor May 34/3 The Posavina flood plain is..very trafficable for armored vehicles.

2006 Facts (Clute, Texas) 30 Dec. 1 a/1 The city is hoping the road will be trafficable by the middle of January.

1889 C. G. Björkman Svensk–Engelsk Ordbok 1114/2 Säljbarhet, sal[e]ableness, vendibleness, vendibility, marketableness,..trafficableness, currency.