private transaction

collocation in English

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private
adjective
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/ˈpraɪ.vət/us
/ˈpraɪ.vət/
only for one person or group and not ...
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transaction
noun[C or U]
uk
/trænˈzæk.ʃən/us
/trænˈzæk.ʃən/
an occasion when someone buys or sells something, or when money is exchanged or the activity of buying or ...
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(Definition ofprivateandtransactionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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That had better be aprivatetransactionrather than a public one.
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The sale of spectacles is aprivatetransaction.
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We would not wish to interfere in the sale of spectacles, which is aprivatetransaction.
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We cannot reasonably be expected to act as guarantor for a whollyprivatetransaction.
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It should be an essentiallyprivatetransactionbetween universities and their students.
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If it means aprivatetransaction, that is a matter which we need not consider.
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I understand why one needs underwriting fees in aprivatetransaction.
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I do not know anything about thatprivatetransaction.
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No disposal of goods is made byprivatetransaction.
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Under legislative changes introduced in 1986, dispensing was deregulated and became aprivatetransaction.
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But circumstances may equally change in the case of aprivatetransaction.
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That is aprivatetransactionwith a private umpire.
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There will be aprivatetransactionbetween the two.
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There is no control over payment for anyprivatetransactionfor frames.
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But how many people buy or sell their houses as a purely personal andprivatetransaction, without any intervention or assistance, save possibly that of solicitors for conveyancing?
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It follows from this that the authority are not in any sense attempting to step into theprivatetransactionthat might otherwise have taken place.
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Because this standard covers so much more, its use in the criminal law is confined broadly to the public situation as opposed to theprivatetransaction.
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Any discounts offered by private health care companies to civil servants are done so in the context of aprivatetransactionbetween the individual and the provider.
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The new schedule vaguely attempts, by regulation, to intervene in a market process—aprivatetransactionbetween freely choosing buyers and sellers.
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The only means of obtaining thatprivatetransactionwere through the hospital, where that consultant held a highly-paid appointment.
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