transactions

Noun

transaction (plural transactions)

1. The act of conducting or carrying out (business, negotiations, plans).
   • The transaction was made on Friday with the supplier.
2. A deal or business agreement.
3. 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.
4. 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
5. 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).
6. (especially, plural) A record of the proceedings of a learned society.

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