transact
verb (used with object)
to carry on or conduct (business, negotiations, activities, etc.) to a conclusion or settlement.
was transacting
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past progressiveof transact.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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He was making domiciliary visits and was transacting business in a loud tone of voice.
From Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 by Holman Day
Besides, prompt action was necessary, for the four dogs, on becoming aware of what was transacting outside, made a united and clamorous dash at the foe.
From The Walrus Hunters A Romance of the Realms of Ice by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
While this was transacting the party were profoundly silent.
From The First White Man of the West Life and Exploits of Col. Dan'l. Boone, the First Settler of Kentucky; Interspersed with Incidents in the Early Annals of the Country. by Timothy Flint
We waited day after day, while the captain, it was understood, was transacting important business on shore, though it was shrewdly suspected that he was amusing himself as he thought fit.
From Paddy Finn by Archibald Webb
"M. Dumoulin, the glovemaker, with whom I was transacting business at the moment when M. de Marmont walked in, in order to buy himself a pair of gloves."
From The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
