transaction
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French transaction, from Old French transaccion, from Late Latin transactio.
Pronunciation
- enPR: trăn-zăk'shən, IPA(key): /tɹænˈzækʃən/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ækʃən
Noun
transaction (plural transactions)
- The act of conducting or carrying out (business, negotiations, plans).
- The transaction was made on Friday with the supplier.
- A deal or business agreement. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- An exchange or trade, as of ideas, money, goods, etc.
- I made the transaction with the vendor as soon as she showed me the pearls.
- (finance) The transfer of funds into, out of, or from an account.
- (computing) An atomic operation; a message, data modification, or other procedure that is guaranteed to perform completely or not at all (e.g. a database transaction).
- (especially in plural) A record of the proceedings of a learned society.
- (transactional analysis) A social interaction.
Related terms
- e-transaction
- microtransaction
- posttransaction
- pretransaction
- subtransaction
- supertransaction
- transact
- transactional
- transactionalism
- transactionalization
- transactionally
- transactionary
- transactionless
- transactive
- transactor
Translations
act of conducting or carrying out business, negotiations, plans
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deal or business agreement
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exchange or trade, as of ideas, money, goods, etc.
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finance: transfer of funds into, out of, or from an account
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computing: atomic operation
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finance: economic transaction: a valid currency transfer
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See also
- piece of the action
Anagrams
- incantators
French
Etymology
From Latin transactio.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʁɑ̃.zak.sjɔ̃/
Audio (file)
Noun
transaction f (plural transactions)
- transaction (clarification of this definition is needed)
Further reading
- “transaction”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.