transact
verb (used with object)
to carry on or conduct (business, negotiations, activities, etc.) to a conclusion or settlement.
had been transacting
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past perfect progressiveof transact.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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The meeting over, they trooped out and explained politely to newsgatherers that they had been transacting "executive" business-and that, besides, the election of a club president had been post-poned a year.
From Time Magazine Archive
Heretofore, he had been transacting all his business affairs at the Grand Pacific and the club.
From Jennie Gerhardt A Novel by Dreiser, Theodore
She was entirely self-possessed, and could not have been cooler, if she had been transacting an ordinary piece of business.
From The Young Miner or Tom Nelson in California by Alger, Horatio
On June 11th he had been transacting some business at the Colliery, and was riding home to South Shields on his pony.
From Bygone Punishments by Andrews, William
Sometimes it was a body from the Stock Exchange, sometimes a host from the House of Commons, sometimes a board of directors with whom he had been transacting business in the morning.
From Endymion by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield
