transaction
Americannoun
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the act of transacting or the fact of being transacted.
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an instance or process of transacting something.
- Synonyms:
- affair, venture, enterprise, bargain, deal
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something that is transacted, especially a business agreement.
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Psychology. an interaction of an individual with one or more other persons, especially as influenced by their assumed relational roles of parent, child, or adult.
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transactions, the published records of the proceedings, as papers read, addresses delivered, or discussions, at the meetings of a learned society or the like.
noun
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something that is transacted, esp a business deal or negotiation
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the act of transacting or the state of being transacted
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(plural) the published records of the proceedings of a society, conference, etc
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(in business computing) the act of obtaining and paying for an item or service
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(in general computing) the transmission and processing of an item of data
Other Word Forms
- pretransaction noun
- transactional adjective
- transactionally adverb
Etymology
Origin of transaction
First recorded in 1425–75; late Middle English, from Latin trānsāctiōn- (stem of trānsāctiō ) “completion, transaction”; transact, -ion
Example Sentences
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That is where people like Sim come in, according to U.S. officials, who as part of their investigations accessed Sim’s emails and a spreadsheet he kept listing transactions.
So he included a condition into the terms of the transaction: 15% of the sale proceeds would go to his employees.
She said a year later the bottles were still in the backroom, suggesting the sales were phantom transactions.
Meta Platforms invested $14 billion in Scale AI, a transaction that led the startup’s CEO to join the social media giant to help lead its AI efforts.
Even if we could do that, our portfolio’s real-world return would be lower, since the researchers’ calculations don’t take transaction costs into account — which could be substantial.
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