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# transact

«transact» in Mova's school dictionary: **To carry out a piece of business, such as buying, selling…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (transacts, transacted, transacting)

### meaning for a pupil

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

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «transact» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transact/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.