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transaction

transaction

236 3.8
An exchange where someone pays money for goods or services
  • noun
  • /trænˈzækʃən/
translation icon : transacción
  • There's gotta be a bank record somewhere of this transaction.
  • financial transactions
  • a business transaction
  • transaction costs

What is the most profitable transaction you do today?

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Examples

  • In most cases, this may actually get the transaction or complaint handled smoothly.

  • Does age matter in this transaction?

  • What type of transaction are you known for?

  • We just have to change the transaction format slightly.

  • Remember, this is just simply a business transaction.

  • What is the most profitable transaction you do today?

  • I have a job, I eat lunch every day, and I make transactions and I get paid.

  • Improvements in information technology reduce transaction costs and therefore reduce the demand for banks to hold reserves.

    Academic text (2017)
  • How's our business transaction?

  • I completed an online transaction to purchase a new laptop yesterday.

Synonyms

trade
vstransaction
1.0

Buying, selling, or exchanging goods and services between businesses and people

is one specific instance of carrying out such an exchange
business deal
vstransaction
32 2.4

An agreement between companies or people to exchange goods and services for money

is the actual single exchange carried out under that agreement
dealings
vstransaction
3.0

Contacts and activities with people and groups, often in business or official situations

is a single commercial exchange rather than ongoing relations

Compounds

transaction cost
  • Specialized
3 4.1

Money you spend when you buy or sell something, for example finding information and making agreements

transaction file
  • Specialized
1 5.2

A computer file that holds recent records of actions updated while the computer works

forward transaction
  • Specialized
7.9

An agreement to buy or sell something for future delivery at a set price

A person or group who takes part in a legal agreement

3.9

Money you pay to process a transfer on a digital money network, often higher when the network is busy

How Complex

merger
189 3.9
transaction
236 3.8
deal
1.4
exchange
515 2.1
purchase
208 1.4

Surface Forms

transaction singular
transactions plural

Morphology

transaction = transact (transparent) = transact + ion

Built straightforwardly from the verb 'transact' + the nominalizing suffix '-ion', yielding 'the act of transacting'.

Etymology

Transaction comes from old Latin parts trans- 'across' and agere 'to do', and is like the word action. So a transaction is an act of doing that moves money or goods 'across' between people, which is why shops and banks record them.