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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

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

The outside world, in which he had been transacting funeral business all the day was completely wiped out.

From Women in Love by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

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