transact

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   conduct business

   Transact with foreign governments.

2. 2
   verb

   To do, carry through, conduct or perform.

   Therefore in hopes to defray ſome of the Charges he muſt be at, he bought a Sloop, loaded it with ſeveral ſorts of Goods, wherewith the Tinquineſe uſually trade to the neighbouring Iſlands, and putting fourteen Men on board, whereof three were of the Country, he appointed me Maſter of the Sloop, and gave me power to traffick for two Months, while he tranſacted his Affairs at Tonquin.

3. 3
   verb

   To carry over, hand over or transfer something.

4. 4
   verb

   To conduct business.

Back-formation from transaction, or else from Latin trānsāctus, past participle of trānsigere.

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