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# transact

verb (transacts, transacted, transacting)

«transact» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

To carry out a piece of business, such as buying, selling or paying (a formal word). [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transact/#m1)

### In the lessons

in tales the brothers go to a fair to transact business, that is, to buy and sell.

### Examples

- The farmer went to town to transact his business. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transact/#x1)
- The two merchants transacted the sale of the cows. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transact/#x2)
- No business was transacted that day because the shops were shut. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transact/#x3)

### Note

when money is transacted, amounts move from one person to another; the total stays the same

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «transact» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transact/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«transact» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/transact.html) on Mova free.