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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Not long ago, pharma companies were swinging for the fences and massive deals made up the bulk of transactional dollars.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026
“And so it does have to go from like, ‘Oh, you’re the manny’ to waking up to each other as something other than this transactional thing with you babysitting.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2026
USDC’s growth is driven by transactional utility, including remittances, tokenized funds, prediction markets, and agentic AI payments.
From Barron's • Mar. 16, 2026
The magazine described a transactional attachment: "What attracted Clinton to Epstein was quite simple: He had a plane."
From BBC • Feb. 26, 2026
Rather it dictates that nursing is a responsible searching, transactional relationship whose meaningfulness demands conceptualization founded on a nurse's existential awareness of self and of the other.
From Humanistic Nursing by Paterson, Josephine G.
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