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transact

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
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trans·act /trænˈzækt/ verb [intransitive, transitive]  formalBBBUSINESS to do business with someone 办理(业务),做(交易) Most deals are transacted over the phone. 大多数生意都是在电话里成交的。
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transactVery often they were essentially ceremonial or symbolic, with little real political business to transact.As well as linking branches of a company, WANs offer the opportunity to transact business electronically with other companies.And soon after this military tribunal was ended, the circuit court met, peacefully transacted its business, and adjourned.Business these days clearly is transacted on a world-wide basis.If so, how do we transact our business.Moreover, the plane may be clever enough to make the trip and transact the business by itself.Drinking whisky in the place where they transacted their cold financial realities during the day was out of kilter somehow.Perhaps the longest and most controversial piece of business transacted was the disestablishment of the Hong Kong Branch.
From Longman Business Dictionarytransacttrans‧act /trænˈzækt/ verb [intransitive, transitive] formalCOMMERCE to do business, such as buying or selling, with another companyThe new networks offer the opportunity totransact business electronically with other companies.A good negotiator knows the price at which he is prepared to transact.→ See Verb tableOrigin transact (1500-1600) Latin past participle of transigere to drive through, finish, transact, from agere to drive, do
trans·act verbChineseSyllable
to do business Business with Corpus someone


transact
transact /trænˈzækt/ verb [intransitive and transitive]
 Date: 1500-1600
 Language: Latin
 Origin: past participle of transigere __to drive through, finish, transact__, from agere __to drive, do__
formal to do business with someone:
    Most deals are transacted over the phone.


trans·actBrE /trænˈzækt/ 🔊NAmE /trænˈzækt/ 🔊 verbpresent simple - I / you / we / they transact BrE /trænˈzækt/ 🔊 NAmE /trænˈzækt/ 🔊present simple - he / she / it transacts BrE /trænˈzækts/ 🔊 NAmE /trænˈzækts/ 🔊past simple transacted BrE /trænˈzæktɪd/ 🔊 NAmE /trænˈzæktɪd/ 🔊past participle transacted BrE /trænˈzæktɪd/ 🔊 NAmE /trænˈzæktɪd/ 🔊 -ing form transacting BrE /trænˈzæktɪŋ/ 🔊 NAmE /trænˈzæktɪŋ/ 🔊 [transitive, intransitive] ~ (sth) (with sb) (formal) to do business with a person or an organization (与人或组织)做业务,做交易buyers and sellers transacting business进行交易的买方和卖方