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Transact vs Horsetrader - What's the difference?

transact | horsetrader |

As a verb transact

is to do, carry through, conduct or perform some action.

As a noun horsetrader is

(literally) a person who buys and sells horses, especially one who makes such transactions in a clever or skillful manner.

transact

English

Verb

  • To do, carry through, conduct or perform some action.
  • To carry over, hand over or transfer something.
  • To conduct business.
  • To exchange or trade, as of ideas, money, goods, etc.
  • horsetrader

    English

    Alternative forms

    * horse trader, horse-trader

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (literally) A person who buys and sells horses, especially one who makes such transactions in a clever or skillful manner.
  • (figuratively, by extension) One who is skillful in transacting or negotiating of any kind.
  • * 1937 , " Judiciary: Visibility Poor," Time , 22 Feb.:
  • The three subordinates on whom President Roosevelt depends to win his Senate victories are Majority Leader Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas, the bull-voiced, heavy-fisted field commander; Pat Harrison of Mississippi, the shrewd committee and cloakroom horsetrader ; and James F. Byrnes of South Carolina.