"transactional relationship" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to a relationship where both parties benefit from the exchange of goods, services, or information. This type of relationship is often seen in business, where companies engage in transactions for mutual gain. Example: "The two companies entered into a transactional relationship, with one providing manufacturing services and the other supplying raw materials. This mutually beneficial arrangement helped to increase efficiency and profitability for both parties."
Food and I have a transactional relationship.
While they eventually joined forces, theirs was a transactional relationship.
The row, which played out over several years, reflects the tense, transactional relationship between reluctant allies.
The quasi-friendship between Clinton and Obama resembles the transactional relationship between most living Presidents.
Anyhow, my conclusion was that American voters have a very transactional relationship with politicians.
He wants to go beyond a transactional relationship, whereby America provides aid in exchange for services.
"These countries have a very transactional relationship to European integration; they were not part of the original family.
Dumas developed mindfulness-based parent training as a psychotherapeutic model for a therapist to work individually with parents to help them examine their "automatized transactional procedures" (ATPs) that are described as "… transactional, relationship-specific ways of coping that are performed with little conscious awareness, stable and highly resistant to change" (Dumas 2005).
Dewey argued that we are in a 'transactional' relationship with all of these technologies within which we discover and construct our world (Hickman 1990).
Half of all men reporting transactional relationship/sex reported giving cash to a partner irrespective of partner type, but the proportion was probably much higher as generally gifts of cosmetics, airtime etc take the form of cash for these items.
Most men had had a transactional relationship/sex with a main partner (58% of all men), 42% with a concurrent partner (or makhwapheni) and 44% with a once off partner, and there was almost no difference in reports of what was provided to women of different partner types.
