transact
verb (used with object)
to carry on or conduct (business, negotiations, activities, etc.) to a conclusion or settlement.
is transacting
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present progressiveof transact (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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“Everyone who’s involved on the commercial side of the art world is transacting on desire, for an object but also for an experience,” she said.
From New York Times ● Nov. 2, 2017
I think—I—Yes"—with a struggle at recollection—"my son-in-law told me that some commercial business which Brian is transacting for him will bring my brother home.
From Agatha's Husband A Novel by Walter Crane
While this is transacting, Couch orders Hancock to move up to the United-States Ford road, which he imagines to be threatened by the enemy; but the order is countermanded when scarcely begun.
From The Campaign of Chancellorsville by Theodore Ayrault Dodge
"He is transacting quite some business with you, isn't he?"
From The Rover Boys in New York Or, Saving their father's honor by Edward Stratemeyer
In these cases the woman should deal with her husband, or the members of her family, the same as she would with strangers with whom she is transacting business.
From Business Hints for Men and Women by Alfred Rochefort Calhoun
