transitivity.

1. In logic, a relation is transitive when A-to-B and B-to-C together imply A-to-C.

2. In grammar, the property of a verb that takes or requires a direct object.

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Her preferences lacked transitivity: she ranked A above B and B above C, but C above A.

The verb’s transitivity determines whether “they shifted the chair” has a direct object.