"It is an ordinary transaction," asserted a senior executive at one bank, asking not to be identified.

All this has added a new and desperate edge to even ordinary transactions.

Silver remained the most common monetary metal used in ordinary transactions until the 20th century.

South Africa uses one exchange rate for ordinary commercial transactions and another for foreign financial investments.

Neither state nor federal law grants such immunity to cooperatives in their ordinary commercial transactions and dealings.

It does not mean that any ordinary transaction has to take place in legal tender or only within the amount denominated by the legislation.

The law of supply and demand applies no less to social relationships than to ordinary commercial transactions.

Prose is sometimes used for ordinary transactions, while matters of feeling and intellect are usually expressed in verse.

It began as an ordinary transaction between the owner of a Chinese restaurant and a contractor he hired to remodel his business.

So it could appear as the kind of ordinary, small transaction that keeps Japan's wheels spinning smoothly.