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transact

[tran-sakt, -zakt] / trænˈsækt, -ˈzækt /


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Fashion specialists tried to add more ways to transact, giving sellers more checks and balances and adding delivery and payment methods to help buyers feel safe.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026

“There’s going to be this expectation that banks can actually transact 24/7 for a fraction of a cent,” Eddequiouaq said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Google Pay and PhonePe can fight fiercely for customers while still allowing their users to transact across the same network.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026

Shares of SpaceX cooled in the ensuing weeks, but the company's valuation at around $1.5 trillion has been viewed as a potential means to transact a combination between SpaceX and Tesla.

From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026

But he knew what she meant; he understood the business the Rosen Association wanted to transact.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick

The U.S. has imposed sanctions on the agency, threatening penalties for any shipper that transacts with it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026

That could jeopardize a trading relationship worth some $300 billion a year, just slightly less than Japan transacts with the U.S.

From Barron's ● Feb. 10, 2026

“We are hearing that we are not just clients or countries that one transacts with, we want to be partners, and that’s certainly the spirit with which we are engaging them,” he said.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 10, 2022

But it still transacts based on those stories, based on what it could become, based on what it intends to do, based on what it, in theory, might do in the future.

From Salon ● Feb. 17, 2022

He who transacts the relative business of passing goods, as to the entries required for the ship's clearance.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher

The spokeswoman said the investigation didn’t establish that any Binance user transacted directly with a sanctioned entity, instead transmitting funds over several steps.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 23, 2026

A huge portion of such fraud is transacted in cryptocurrency.

From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2025

It was a pay-as-you-go operation transacted in US dollars.

From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2023

Platts collects bids, offers and transacted prices for cobalt and molybdenum from buyers and sellers and produces an end-of-day value.

From Reuters ● Jul. 6, 2023

The festival is in some ways like any other kind of conference, in that awards presentations, schedule changes, and various other routine business matters are transacted at a lectern on the stage.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove

Laforge said the main way to assess this is by evaluating the number of owners, both directly and via exchange-traded funds, as well as looking at addresses holding a balance and transacting each day.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026

These networks operate like eBay with users transacting directly and the operator taking a cut of transactions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

She is accused of breaching US sanctions against Iran, which prohibit US persons from transacting or dealing in Iranian goods or services without authorisation.

From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2026

If there are enough buyers and sellers transacting, that market is efficient.

From Salon ● Jan. 7, 2025

After transacting his business he was seen walking in Prince of Wales Road in the direction of Thorpe railway station; then all trace was lost of him. 

From Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 by Charles Mackie




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