transaction (noun)
1transaction — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ cross border, international ▪ private ▪ fraudulent (esp. BrE), illegal, suspicious ▪ The president had entered into fraudulent property …
2transaction — ► NOUN 1) an instance of buying or selling. 2) the action of conducting business. 3) an exchange or interaction between people. DERIVATIVES transactional adjective. ORIGIN Latin, from transigere drive through …
3transaction — trans·ac·tion /tran zak shən, sak / n 1: something transacted; esp: an exchange or transfer of goods, services, or funds 2 a: an act, process, or instance of transacting b: an action or activity involving two parties or things that reciprocally… …
4transaction cost — ➔ cost1 * * * transaction cost UK US noun [C, usually plural] (also transactional cost) ► COMMERCE, FINANCE an amount paid in order to buy or sell something in addition to the price of the thing itself, for example legal costs: »If you move often …
5transaction processing — ➔ processing * * * transaction processing UK US noun [U] ► IT the use of a computer system to organize transactions (= actions that change information) in a database ► COMMERCE the system used by a company to deal with its sales: »The Service… …
6transaction — noun formal 1 (C) a business deal: The bank charges a fixed rate for each transaction. | financial transactions 2 (U) the process of doing business: the transaction of his public duties 3 transactions (plural) discussions that take place at the… …
7transaction data — noun Data describing an event (the change as a result of a transaction) and is usually described with verbs; it always has a time dimension, a numerical value and refers to one or more objects, on which reference data is kept. See Also: reference …
8transaction — noun 1) property transactions Syn: deal, business deal, undertaking, arrangement, bargain, negotiation, agreement, settlement; proceedings 2) the bank statement records your transactions Syn: debit, credit …
9transaction processing — noun (computing) The use of an online computer to interrogate or update files in real time • • • Main Entry: ↑transact …
10transaction — noun 1》 an instance of buying or selling. ↘the action of conducting business. 2》 an exchange or interaction between people. 3》 (transactions) published reports of proceedings at the meetings of a learned society. 4》 an input message to a… …