transaction
NounOpen English WordNet
Noun (1)transactions
- the act of transacting within or between groups (as carrying on commercial activities)“no transactions are possible without him”“he has always been honest in his dealings with me”Synonyms: dealingdealingsType of group actionKinds commerce, deal, exchange, affairs, operations, agiotage, transfer, downtick, borrowing, rental +2 moreExamples Alaska Purchase, Seward's Folly
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Translations
Noun financial transaction, transfer of funds
- Spanish
- transacción
- French
- transaction
- German
- Transaktion
- Italian
- transazione
- Portuguese
- transação
- Russian
- транза́кция tranzákcija
- Arabic
- مُعَامَلَة muʕāmala
- Japanese
- 取引 torihiki
- Dutch
- transactie
- Polish
- transakcja
14 more languages
- Swedish
- transaktion
- Greek
- συναλλαγή synallagí
- Korean
- 거래 georae
- Indonesian
- transaksi
- Hungarian
- tranzakció
- Portuguese (PT)
- transação
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 交易 jiāoyì
- Catalan
- transacció
- Czech
- transakce
- Esperanto
- transakcio
- Finnish
- rahansiirto
- Norwegian
- transaksjon
- Romanian
- tranzacție
- Serbo-Croatian
- transakcija
Noun deal, business dealing
- French
- transaction
- Portuguese
- transação
- Russian
- сде́лка sdélka
- Greek
- συναλλαγή synallagí
- Indonesian
- transaksi
- Hungarian
- ügylet
- Portuguese (PT)
- transação
- Finnish
- transaktio
- Georgian
- გარიგება garigeba
- Hebrew
- עִסְקָה 'iská
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: L. transactio, fr. transigere, transactum, to drive through, carry through, accomplish, transact; trans across, over + agere to drive; cf. F. transaction. See Act, Agent.
1. The doing or performing of any business; management of any affair; performance.
2. That which is done; an affair; as, the transactions on the exchange.
3. Civil law An adjustment of a dispute between parties by mutual agreement.
Transaction of a society, the published record of what it has done or accomplished.
Synonyms: Proceeding; action; process. — Transaction, Proceeding. A transaction is something already done and completed; a proceeding is either something which is now going on, or, if ended, is still contemplated with reference to its progress or successive stages.
☞ “ We the word proceeding in application to an affray in the street, and the word transaction to some commercial negotiation that has been carried on between certain persons. The proceeding marks the manner of proceeding, as when we speak of the proceedings in a court of law. The transaction marks the business transacted; as, the transactions on the Exchange.” George Crabb
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54
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A unit of interaction with a DBMS or similar system. It must be treated in a coherent and reliable way independent of other transactions. See atomic.