transaction
transaction Lexical Profile
transaction Game Scores & Validity
• noun
An instance of buying or selling something, or an exchange of goods, services, or funds between parties.
"Please retain your receipt until the financial transaction has been fully processed by the bank."
The action or process of conducting business, negotiations, or communicative interactions between people.
"Successful diplomacy relies on the careful transaction of sensitive state affairs."
A discrete, indivisible sequence of information exchange and related work in a computer database that is treated as a single unit.
"If any step in the database transaction fails, the entire operation is rolled back to preserve data integrity."
Published reports or records of the papers and proceedings presented at meetings of a learned society (usually used in the plural).
"Her groundbreaking research was first published in the philosophical transactions of the academy."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin transactio, meaning an agreement or completion of business, from the verb transigere ('to drive through, accomplish, or settle'), formed from trans- ('across, through') and agere ('to drive, do').