Question of the Day #1063

Pacifica businesses say foot traffic has dropped off after storms and pier closure

From the headline of this article at NBC Bay Area.

  上記の文で、foot trafficの意味は？
In the sentence above, what does "foot traffic" mean?

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解答

意味：
英辞郎によると、

歩行者［徒歩での］交通、客の出足

厳密に言うと「歩行者」と「客の出足」の二つの異なる意味になります。
 

Answer

According to the Cambridge Dictionary:

1. people who are walking, not driving cars or riding bicycles
2. the number of people who go into a shop or business in a particular period of time

 

Examples

• The town centre was originally designed for foot traffic only.
• Foot traffic at stores across the country has declined this year.
• New openings drumming up foot traffic on the strip include Elyse Walker, Versace, and Hermès. —Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 4 Jan. 2024
• This particular data broker, called Near, uses smartphone location data to trace the foot traffic of about 1.6 billion people across 70 million locations in 44 countries. —Jesse Gilbert, Rolling Stone, 27 Nov. 2023
• Shopper visits, a metric used to assess in-person sales, rose 4.6% compared on Black Friday compared to a year ago -- a rate that nearly doubled the average overall increase in foot traffic this year up to that point, retail data firm Sensormatic Solutions said. —Max Zahn, ABC News, 26 Dec. 2023

   

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