Transaction

//tɹænˈzækʃən// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The act of conducting or carrying out (business, negotiations, plans).

    "The transaction was made on Friday with the supplier."

  2. 2
    the act of transacting within or between groups (as carrying on commercial activities) wordnet
  3. 3
    A deal or business agreement.
  4. 4
    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."

  5. 5
    The transfer of funds into, out of, or from an account.
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  1. 6
    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).
  2. 7
    A record of the proceedings of a learned society. especially, plural
  3. 8
    A social interaction.

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French transaction, from Old French transaccion, from Late Latin transactio.

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