TRANSACTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does transaction mean? 

• TRANSACTION (noun)
  The noun TRANSACTION has 1 sense:

1. the act of transacting within or between groups (as carrying on commercial activities)

  Familiarity information: TRANSACTION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRANSACTION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of transacting within or between groups (as carrying on commercial activities)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

dealing; dealings; transaction

Context example:

he has always been honest is his dealings with me

Hypernyms ("transaction" is a kind of...):

group action (action taken by a group of people)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "transaction"):

commerce; commercialism; mercantilism (transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services))

affairs (transactions of professional or public interest)

operations; trading operations (financial transactions at a brokerage; having to do with the execution of trades and keeping customer records)

transfer; transference (transferring ownership)

exchange (the act of giving something in return for something received)

business deal; deal; trade (a particular instance of buying or selling)

downtick (a transaction in the stock market at a price below the price of the preceding transaction)

uptick (a transaction in the stock market at a price above the price of the preceding transaction)

borrowing (obtaining funds from a lender)

rental; renting (the act of paying for the use of something (as an apartment or house or car))

Instance hyponyms:

Seward's Folly (the transaction in 1867 in which the United States Secretary of State William Henry Seward purchased Alaska from Russia)

Derivation:

transact (conduct business)

 Context examples 

I will not attempt to console you; but will simply relate the circumstances of the transaction.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Sorry! yes, I hope you are sorry; and you will probably have reason to be long sorry for this day's transactions.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

With regard to our transaction, you will no doubt have observed by now that one essential detail is missing.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The man touched his hat, took his bag, put on his coat and departed; not a soul took the slightest notice of the whole transaction.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I confess that I should be interested to know who this Mr. Cornelius may be with whom a retired builder has such very large transactions.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The final step in the processing of a business transaction during which a business process is done.

(Commit Operation, NCI Thesaurus)

NPI is assigned for use in all administrative and financial transactions specified by HIPAA.

(National Provider Identifier, NCI Thesaurus)

Why, replied Traddles, on whose attentive face a thoughtful shade had stolen, it was rather a painful transaction, Copperfield, in my case.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

If you need to make a transaction, you will keep it under the radar and strictly confidential.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Sir, depend on it, my nerves were not in fault; the thing was real: the transaction actually took place.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)