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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How do banks distinguish between transactional points “gamers” and just highly engaged cardholders and brand advocates?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
"It’s really about values alignment," she said, adding that charities that court the newly rich only after their big payday risk looking transactional.
From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026
Not only was the friendship transactional, but you took a closer look at the people whose roofs needed repairing.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 25, 2026
“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
It is intersubjective and transactional, so the art of nursing must involve a doing with and a being with.
From Humanistic Nursing by Josephine G. Paterson
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