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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A highly transactional approach to keyword advertising, meanwhile, is under revision.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
Eric Marti, who heads the box office specialist Comscore in France, said studios have always had a transactional approach to Cannes.
From Barron's • May 11, 2026
Her fieldwork points to something more politically sophisticated than the transactional model often assumed by strategists.
From BBC • May 11, 2026
Critics argue that the Accords are transactional and shallow: photo-ops dressed up as diplomacy.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026
There is no need to import into the phrases of the New Testament writers the crude transactional notions of later theology, no need to drag in ideas about penalties and punishments.
From Religious Reality by Rawlinson, A. E. J. (Alfred Edward John)
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