English Explanatory Dictionary

transaction

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The act of conducting or carrying out (business, negotiations, plans).
  2. A deal or business agreement.
  3. An exchange or trade, as of ideas, money, goods, etc.
  4. The transfer of funds into, out of, or from an account.
  5. 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).
  6. A record of the proceedings of a learned society.
  7. A social interaction.

Pronunciation

trăn-zăk'shən /tɹænˈzækʃən/ /t͡ʃɹænˈzækʃən/ en-us-transaction.ogg

Word forms

transaction transactions

Etymology

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

Related words

piece of the action

Derived words

bed-and-breakfast transaction e-transaction microtransaction personal transaction posttransaction pretransaction subtransaction supertransaction transactional transactionalism transactionalization transactionally transactionary transaction block transaction cost transaction data transaction journal transactionless transaction time transaction utility transact transactive transactor
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