transact
/tranˈzakt
/ /trɑːnˈzakt/ /trɑːnˈsakt/ /tranˈsakt/verb [with object]
Conduct or carry out (business): traders transact business in the public exchange [no object]: the dealer must know the price at which he is prepared to transact...
- The way business is transacted, government operates, and national defense is conducted have changed.
- It is suggested that Indian traders may be allowed to move only up to the nearest Bangladesh trading point where the Indian traders can transact business.
- Subsequently, more organizations can transact business online without large software applications or resources, constant upgrades, and/or system overhauls.
Synonyms
negotiate, conduct, carry out, do, perform, execute, enact, manage, handle, organize, take care of, prosecute, work out, thrash out, hammer out, see to, administer, operate;
settle, conclude, finish, clinch, discharge, accomplish, reach an agreement on, agree on, come to terms about, reach terms on
informal sort out
Derivatives
transactor
/ noun ...- Only an eighth of the transactors are in the public service: their numbers have been growing slightly more slowly than those in the private sector.
- The technology itself transforms behavior, he says: ‘They're the most active searchers, the most fervid transactors, the most sold on the Internet overall.’
- The ancestors too are transactors in these ‘complex forms of interrelationship extending back through time’.
Origin
Late 16th century: from Latin transact- 'driven through', from the verb transigere, from trans- 'through' + agere 'do, lead'.
Rhymes
- national bank
- National Capital Territory of Delhi
- national character
- national characteristic
- national church
- National City
- national committee
- national committeeman
- national committeewoman
- national convention
- national curriculum
- national debt
- National Defence Contribution
- National Defense Contribution
- national epic
- national football
- National Football League
- national forest
- National Front
- National Gallery
- national game
- national government
- national grid
- National Guard
- National Health