Synonyms of traffickers

traffickers

noun

plural of trafficker

as in traders

a buyer and seller of goods for profit

a trafficker who sold pirated videos from the back of his car

Synonyms & Similar Words

• traders
• dealers
• merchants
• businessmen
• retailers
• buyers
• entrepreneurs
• merchandisers
• vendors
• marketers
• tradesmen
• purchasers
• sellers
• distributors
• peddlers
• suppliers
• wholesalers
• hawkers
• middlemen
• shopkeepers
• providers
• monopolists
• storekeepers
• hucksters
• purveyors
• hustlers
• enterprisers
• jobbers
• engrossers
• provisioners

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of traffickers

Uribe was based at the Mather National Guard facility near Rancho Cordova and served as a member of the state Counterdrug Task Force, a unit that assists local, tribal and federal law enforcement entities in combating drug traffickers. — Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 9 Oct. 2026

Human traffickers are turning children’s hunger, desperation and need for affection into tools of exploitation, a Colorado city police sergeant warned after his dedicated unit’s first year brought dozens of survivors to safety. — Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 8 Oct. 2026

Prosecutors accused Maduro and Flores of protecting traffickers, facilitating cocaine shipments and benefiting financially from narcotics operations. — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 8 Oct. 2026

Many victims are forced into committing crimes to help traffickers; under Proposition 133, victims would also face mandatory life in prison if convicted of those crimes. — Shelly Bradbury, Denver Post, 3 Oct. 2026

Once a week, a group of former drug-traffickers gather in a small recording studio on the outskirts of Rio to dissect their past lives of crime and those of their guests. — ABC News, 27 Sep. 2026

Talarico says immigration enforcement is necessary but that resources should be refocused to target cartels, gang members and human traffickers. — Andrea Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2026

Since 2017, the Antiquities Trafficking Unit has convicted 18 individual traffickers and repatriated over 6,000 cultural treasures to 40 countries. — News Desk, Artforum, 25 Sep. 2026

For much of the 1990s and 2000s, Guatemala had been twisting its way toward democracy, but corruption networks and drug traffickers had insinuated themselves into the country’s institutions. — Will Freeman, The Atlantic, 20 Sep. 2026