English Online Dictionary. What means transaction? What does transaction mean?
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French transaction, from Old French transaccion, from Late Latin transactio.
Pronunciation
- enPR: trăn-zăk'shən, IPA(key): /tɹænˈzækʃən/
- Rhymes: -ækʃən
Noun
transaction (plural transactions)
- The act of conducting or carrying out (business, negotiations, plans).
- A deal or business agreement. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- An exchange or trade, as of ideas, money, goods, etc.
- (finance) The transfer of funds into, out of, or from an account.
- (computing) 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).
- (especially in plural) A record of the proceedings of a learned society.
- (transactional analysis) A social interaction.
Derived terms
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- piece of the action
Anagrams
- incantators
French
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin trānsactiō.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʁɑ̃.zak.sjɔ̃/
Noun
transaction f (plural transactions)
- compromise, concession
- Near-synonyms: compromis, accommodement, concession
- transaction
Derived terms
- transactionnel
Related terms
- transiger
Further reading
- “transaction”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.