From the technical stand point the following typical transactions take place:

A typical transaction could involve a chain of trades connecting 10 or more parties.

A typical transaction, he noted, can be thousands of dollars, compared with, say, $15 for a book.

"The typical transaction is a 60-year-old woman in a Midwestern town selling to an urban bachelor on the coast," he announces.

Edmunds.com says the typical transaction runs about $40,000.

That would mean about 20 cents less on a typical $100 transaction.

As I understand it, this is a typical transaction.

In a typical electronic-mail transaction, you might write a letter on the little computer before calling the big computer.

He said the average time it took for a typical transaction had been reduced from two hours to less than 30 minutes.

In the typical transaction, it is the finance company which runs these risks.