transaction
/tɹænˈzækʃən/
transaction noun: the act of conducting or carrying out (business, negotiations, plans).
Noun
transaction (plural transactions)
- The act of conducting or carrying out (business, negotiations, plans).
- The transaction was made on Friday with the supplier.
- A deal or business agreement.
- 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.
- The transfer of funds into, out of, or from an account.
- 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
- 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).
- A record of the proceedings of a learned society.
- A social interaction.
transaction meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
transaction in Hindi
- लेन-देन, लेनदेन
transaction in Tamil
- இடைமாற்று வாணிகம், கொள்கொடை வாணிகம், வணிகச் செயல்பாடு, வணிக நடைமுறை, பரிவர்த்தனை, பரிமாற்றம்
transaction in Marathi
- व्यवहार
transaction in Urdu
- لین دین, پالا
More languagesFewer languages
- transaction in Bengali
- চুক্তি, সম্পাদিত কর্ম, সংব্যবহার
- transaction in Telugu
- లావాదేవీ
- transaction in Malayalam
- ഇടപാട് iṭapāṭŭ
- transaction in Kannada
- ವ್ಯವಹಾರ, ವಹಿವಾಟು, ನಿರ್ವಹಣೆ, ಕೊಳ್ಳುಕೊಡುಹ
- transaction in Punjabi
- ਲੈਣ-ਦੇਣ, ਟ੍ਰਾਂਜੈਕਸ਼ਨ
- transaction in Gujarati
- વ્યવહાર, લેવડ-દેવડ, લેવડદેવડ
- transaction in Odia
- ନେଣଦେଣ
- transaction in Nepali
- लेनदेन, लेन-देन
- transaction in Arabic
- صَفْقَة ṣafqa, مُعَامَلَة muʕāmala
- transaction in Malay
- urus niaga
- transaction in Indonesian
- transaksi
- transaction in Thai
- ธุรกรรม tú-rá-gam
Examples of transaction in a sentence
- I need to update my records to take account of the most recent transaction.
- All transactions were entered in the cash blotter and agent's subsidiary ledger.
- Central banks need to regulate the entities that intermediate monetary transactions.
Forms of transaction
| plural | transactions |
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Origin of transaction
Borrowed from Middle French transaction, from Old French transaccion, from Late Latin transactio. By surface analysis, trans- + action.
Words formed from transaction
- transact
- transactive
- transactor
- 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
Phrases with transaction
Words that rhyme with transaction
Questions about transaction
- What does transaction mean?
- Transaction means the act of conducting or carrying out (business, negotiations, plans).
- What is transaction in Hindi?
- Transaction in Hindi is लेन-देन, लेनदेन. See Transaction meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is transaction?
- Transaction is a noun.
- How do you pronounce transaction?
- Transaction is pronounced /tɹænˈzækʃən/.
- What is the plural of transaction?
- The plural of transaction is transactions.
Words near transaction in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: transaction (page history and authors); transaction (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); transaction (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); transaction (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); transaction (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); transaction (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); transaction (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); transaction (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); transaction (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); transaction (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); transaction (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); transaction (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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