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
"You were not interrupted while you were transacting this business, no customer happened into the store?" asked Moxlow.
From The Just and the Unjust by Bracker, M. Leone
Where halls had been closed or raided the lumber workers were transacting their union affairs right on the job or in the bunkhouses, just as though nothing had happened.
From The Centralia Conspiracy by Chaplin, Ralph
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
And so right now this long expected day arrived; a great contractors' fair had just ended, and all the notaries' offices were transacting deals for enormous suras every day.
From Yama: the pit by Guerney, Bernard Guilbert
