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.
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“Not that you shouldn’t get a picture, but when I’m reduced to just the transactional, I find that much harder to bear,” she confessed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
If one person is offering gifts or another person seeks social connections, that’s when a friendship can become transactional.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026
Yet beneath this narrative of journalistic fortitude lies a far more transactional reality that defines modern Washington media.
From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2026
Historically, have we been less transactional than others in our dealings with foreign nations, less inclined to ask what’s in it for us before we respond to events elsewhere?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
The approach then of the second phase of this method and of the transactional phase of nursing when nurses are in the arena with others is the same.
From Humanistic Nursing by Josephine G. Paterson
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