Transact
[træn'zækt;trɑːn-;-'sækt] or [træn'zækt]
Definition
(verb.) conduct business; 'transact with foreign governments'.
Checker: Valerie--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To carry through; to do; perform; to manage; as, to transact commercial business; to transact business by an agent.
(v. i.) To conduct matters; to manage affairs.
Typist: Lucas
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Do, perform, manage, conduct, carry on.
Editor: Shanna
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Conduct, perform, treat, complete, carry_on, manage, negotiate
ANT:Mistransact, misconduct, mismanage, misnegotiate
Editor: Val
Definition
v.t. to manage: to perform.—v.i. to manage anything.—ns. Transac′tion act of transacting: management of any affair: an affair: (pl.) the reports or publications of certain learned societies; Transac′tor.
Editor: Sweeney
Examples
- There was business to transact. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I went out about mid-day to transact some business in Oxford Street. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- He has often much business to transact at Whinbury. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Mrs. Crawley returned a note with her compliments, and an intimation that it was not her custom to transact bargains with ladies' maids. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Having settled the little business I had to transact there, and slept there one night, I walked on to Canterbury early in the morning. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I shall transact the business: you will transact the pleasure. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- You confuse me, and how can I transact business if I am confused? Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Buying and selling was transacted by means of money in England then as well as now. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- A great deal of business was transacted in this short period. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- And now suppose this Repast, the solid part of it, transacted; and the first bottle over. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It is by means of the modern elevator that the business of a whole town may be transacted under a single roof. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- I beg your pardon, Mr Twemlow; you see I am acquainted with the nature of the affairs that are transacted here. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- This important business having been transacted, Mr. Weller the elder proceeded to open that, on which he had summoned his son. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- This business transacted, I turned my face, on my own account, to Little Britain. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Mr Lightwood explained that he came from the proctor's, with whom he had been engaged in transacting Mr Boffin's affairs. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The carrying trade is employed in transacting the commerce of foreign countries, or in carrying the surplus produce of one to another. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The outside world, in which he had been transacting funeral business all the day was completely wiped out. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It is for transacting either domestic or foreign business, that gold or silver money is either necessary or convenient. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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