TRANSACT

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does transact mean? 

• TRANSACT (verb)
  The verb TRANSACT has 1 sense:

1. conduct business

  Familiarity information: TRANSACT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRANSACT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they transact    ... he / she / it transacts   
Past simple: transacted   
Past participle: transacted   
-ing form: transacting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Conduct business

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Context example:

transact with foreign governments

Hypernyms (to "transact" is one way to...):

interact (act together or towards others or with others)

Domain category:

commerce; commercialism; mercantilism (transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services))

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "transact"):

deal; sell; trade (do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood)

turn over (do business worth a certain amount of money)

bank (do business with a bank or keep an account at a bank)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

transaction (the act of transacting within or between groups (as carrying on commercial activities))

transactor (someone who conducts or carries on business or negotiations)

 Context examples 

Control of these alternative splice sites is thought to involve transacting factors.

(Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptor 2, NCI Thesaurus)

As we entered this city, our minds were filled with the remembrance of the events that had been transacted there more than a century and a half before.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Men have before hired bravos to transact their crimes, while their own person and reputation sat under shelter.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Then there was business to be transacted, bills to be paid, and everlasting reporters to be endured.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I went out about midday to transact some business in Oxford Street.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Having settled the little business I had to transact there, and slept there one night, I walked on to Canterbury early in the morning.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

This interpreter was a person employed to transact affairs with the Hollanders.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

When they stopped at the door, Mrs. Jennings recollected that there was a lady at the other end of the street on whom she ought to call; and as she had no business at Gray's, it was resolved, that while her young friends transacted their's, she should pay her visit and return for them.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

It seems they had come in the carriage with their reverend relative, and had been conducting a rummaging scrutiny of the room upstairs, while he transacted business with the housekeeper, questioned the laundress, and lectured the superintendent.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I am persuaded that Mrs. Smith suspects his regard for Marianne, disapproves of it, (perhaps because she has other views for him,) and on that account is eager to get him away;—and that the business which she sends him off to transact is invented as an excuse to dismiss him.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)