transact
verb (used with object)
to carry on or conduct (business, negotiations, activities, etc.) to a conclusion or settlement.
were 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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A few days later the London Daily Mail angrily protested that American businessmen in uniform were transacting business in Paris.
From Time Magazine Archive
Toward four o'clock that afternoon Castanier appeared among the little knots of men who were transacting private business after 'Change.
From Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories by Julian Hawthorne
Here an immense number of daily affairs were transacting themselves, and the Present eagerly jostled the Past out of the road.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 by Various
While these things were transacting, there was so general a dissatisfaction, occasioned by the oppressions of Sir John Harvey, and the difficulties in getting him out, that the whole colony was in confusion.
From The History of Virginia, in Four Parts by Robert Beverley
While these things were transacting in Italy, Horatio, animated by love and glory, was pursuing his journey to Poland.
