economic transaction
collocation in Englishmeaningsofeconomicandtransaction
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economic
adjective
uk/ˌiː.kəˈnɒm.ɪk/us/ˌiː.kəˈnɑː.mɪk/
relating to trade, industry, ...
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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 ofeconomicandtransactionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Two of these terms are specifically related to aspects of elite culture oreconomictransaction.
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As such, they were at once aneconomictransactionand an act of trust between citizen, monarch, and the mediating processes of the law.
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An interaction such as aneconomictransactioncan be viewed in very simple terms as a prisoners' dilemma situation.
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Derrida develops this idea: the gift is only a gift until it is returned, at which point it becomes aneconomictransaction.
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He owned the garage, so that this was a self-liquidatingeconomictransaction.
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Alleconomictransactionimply so-called transaction costs.
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Economic transactions were made between families and not between individuals.
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The two places are scarcely comparable in terms of population size and economic transactions.
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Huge quantities of economic transactions are thereby absent from the measure.
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Through economic transactions the population came to have a sense of reciprocity and interdependence.
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According to the theory human interaction is like aneconomictransaction, in that you may seek to maximize rewards and minimize costs.
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The respective forms of organisation reflect different ways of dealing with the cost of economic transactions.
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Economic transactions are now between individuals.
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In such cases, the real bearer of the deontology is the participant in the economic transactions and the player in the game.
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Clearly, women were not inhibited from travelling without male guardians outside their communities to carry out economic transactions.
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Thanks to the records the system produced, historians now possess a particularly precious source for the study of economic transactions, including credit relationships.
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Farmers who before the war received prices set through largely unregulated economic transactions were subsequently required to sell their produce to a statutory board that fixed producer prices administratively.
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Such a method will inevitably carry its weaknesses since economic transactions simply might not have been notarised.
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The interdependent flow of economic transactions, in the company as in the colonial monopoly, was difficult to confine within the frontiers of a national economy.
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