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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These creator trips aren’t meant to feel transactional, said Anastasia Ali, Disney’s vice president of inclusive marketing and audience growth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026
Also, the types of contracts that you get for this have something called value in kind, so it's not a transactional contract.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
And there are two kinds of toxic friendships: one that is transactional and one that is based in trauma.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026
Motherhood used to be filled with transactional relationships—the neighborhood mom you would carpool with but didn’t necessarily invite over to dinner; the mom of your kid’s friend who kept to herself.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 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 A. E. J. (Alfred Edward John) Rawlinson
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