transaction
noun/tɹænˈzækʃən/ · /t͡ʃɹænˈzækʃən/
Etymology Borrowed from Middle French transaction, from Old French transaccion, from Late Latin transactio. By surface analysis, trans- + action.
7 senses
- 1The act of conducting or carrying out (business…
- 2A deal or business agreement.
- 3An exchange or trade, as of ideas, money, goods, etc.…
- 4The transfer of funds into, out of, or from an account.
- 5An atomic operation; a message, data modification, or…
- 6A record of the proceedings of a learned society.
- 7A social interaction.
1
The act of conducting or carrying out (business, negotiations, plans).
- The transaction was made on Friday with the supplier.
2
A deal or business agreement.
3
An exchange or trade, as of ideas, money, goods, etc.; personal interaction.
- I made the transaction with the vendor as soon as she showed me the pearls.
- But also: all of the banking transactions you carry out, each phrase you dictate to Alexa, each scan of a UPS package en route to your door, every record of a COVID-19 PCR test in your Labcorp account, every bucket of wings you DoorDashed.2022 February 4, Ian Bogost, “The Internet Is Just Investment Banking Now”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 06 Feb 2022:
5
Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences 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
Especially A record of the proceedings of a learned society.
7
A social interaction.
Transactional analysis
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25 terms
bed-and-breakfast transaction, cybertransaction, e-transaction, microtransaction, mistransaction, 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- Related terms
- piece of the action