transactional

Example Sentences

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“And so it does have to go from like, ‘Oh, you’re the manny’ to waking up to each other as something other than this transactional thing with you babysitting.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2026

The president, he adds, is "known to have a transactional understanding of alliance relationships in general".

From BBC • Mar. 19, 2026

If you give him one penny of your own money, it will open up a transactional codependence between you and this man, who is a virtual stranger.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 25, 2026

"New US foreign policy in Africa is more transactional," he said.

From Barron's • Feb. 23, 2026

Being and Doing As an intersubjective, transactional experience, nursing necessarily involves both a mode of being and a doing of something.

From Humanistic Nursing by Paterson, Josephine G.