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Subject:Re: The Tech Writer as Smuggler From:Milan Davidovic <milan -dot- lists -at- gmail -dot- com> To:techwr-l <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Fri, 19 Jun 2009 07:31:04 -0400
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 7:10 AM, Stephen Arrants<steve -at- mbfbioscience -dot- com> wrote:
> Trafficking also means being responsible for routing, tracking, and managing things like projects, documents, etc. within a business from one department to another. As each department takes action, responsibility goes back to the traffic manager for further routing/action.
>
> This term has been in use at least as long as I've been in publishing (almost 30 years).
Thanks for that.
FWIW, the Online Etymology Dictionary has an entry for the noun, but
also mentions the verb:
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