'transition": a verb?

Hello,
Is 'transition' a verb in this quoatation? Is 'transition' used as a verb at all?

Yes. It's not used that much as a verb though. The noun is far more common, and note that it is an intransitive verb. Here it is used with the meaning of: 'make a transition'.

Hope this helps,

- YoHf

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"To transition" is peculiarly appropriate, in the context of a press officer.

They do strange things with nouns.

MrP

AnonymousHello,
Is 'transition' a verb in this quoatation? Is 'transition' used as a verb at all? I thought it is only a noun. It seems to me here acting as a verb though. Could anyone explain it to me, please? Shouldn't it be transfer here? Thanks in advance.

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I found "transition" as an intransitive verb in a couple of the online dictionaries I consulted. It's first usage in this manner, from what I read, was 1946. I still think that it is very lame to use this word as a verb, when the word "change" can be easily used instead. I think some people use it because they think that using multiple syllables makes them appear clever. It just grates on me,

It's one of those words that's used incorrectly in business. And because those incorrect uses tend to be in meetings, they behave almost like viruses, with more and more people adopting the incorrect use.

As Sharper quite rightly said, it's a noun. Not a verb.

Ah, a voice of reason.

There seems something about business schools that encourages people to nounify verbs and verbify nouns. :-D

Its first usage . . . (lose the apostrophe)

It's one of those words that are used incorrectly in business. (Of those words that are used incorrectly in business, it is one.)

In the example you give it's a noun not a verb. If fact it's always a noun. The verb is transit.