Equivalent of CONTAINs clause?

Using Oracle 11g
I have a table transaction as below
Transactionid     type     entiy
1                 edit       currency
1                      edit       party
2                      edit       currency
2                      edit       xyz
2                      edit       party
3                      edit      currency
3                      edit      abcI need to find those transactionid which involves currency , but doesn’t involve party in it. Ie my expected output should be
Transactionid     type     entiy
3 edit currency
3 edit abc
Do we have an operator which is something like CONTAINS .. so that I can specify select from . ….where CONTAINS (currency) BUT NOT CONTAINS(PARTY) group by transactionid?
Thanks,
S

This is just to complete the set of approaches.
select * from transactions
where transactionid in ( select transactionid from transactions
                                  where type = 'edit' and entity = 'currency'
                                  minus
                                  select transactionid from transactions
                                  where type = 'edit' and entity = 'party')
{code}
Depending on the relative skew of values in teh table this might perform better or worse than the EXISTS solutions already posted.
Cheers, APC

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