transactional
Americanadjective
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of or relating to the process of conducting business.
A leading authority on ethical issues in commercial practice, she has designed classes and materials to teach students transactional skills.
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of or relating to personal or social interaction characterized by mutual influence and exchange.
The teacher questioned each pair of students in turn about the transactional nature of the role play—how their partner's statements or behavior shaped their own.
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of or relating to an attitude in which personal interaction revolves around cost and benefit.
There is a shift toward a more transactional relationship between a synagogue and its congregants, where the focus is often on dues and program fees.
Other Word Forms
- transactionally adverb
Etymology
Origin of transactional
Example Sentences
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Critics argue that the Accords are transactional and shallow: photo-ops dressed up as diplomacy.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026
You’re able to evade feeling pinched by the noose of transactional cosmopolitianism.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026
And some see Zimbabwe's vast and untapped deposits of rare-earth minerals and the transactional nature of Trump's politics as key to unlocking the cash.
From BBC • Mar. 14, 2026
If you give him one penny of your own money, it will open up a transactional codependence between you and this man, who is a virtual stranger.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 25, 2026
As an angular view, it holds the focus on the basic question underlying nursing practice: Is this particular intersubjective, transactional nursing event humanizing or dehumanizing?
From Humanistic Nursing by Paterson, Josephine G.
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