transaction

Borrowed from Middle French transaction, from Old French transaccion, from Late Latin transactio. By surface analysis, trans- +‎ action.

• enPR: trăn-zăk'shən, IPA^(key): /tɹænˈzækʃən/, /t͡ʃɹænˈzækʃən/

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• Rhymes: -ækʃən

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. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
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. (finance) The transfer of funds into, out of, or from an account.
   • 2022 February 4, Ian Bogost, “The Internet Is Just Investment Banking Now”, in The Atlantic‎^[1], archived from the original on 6 February 2022:

     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.

5. (computing) 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 in plural) A record of the proceedings of a learned society.
7. (transactional analysis) A social interaction.

• piece of the action

• incantators

Learned borrowing from Latin trānsactiō.

• IPA^(key): /tʁɑ̃.zak.sjɔ̃/

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transaction f (plural transactions)

1. compromise, concession

   Near-synonyms: compromis, accommodement, concession

2. transaction

• transactionnel

• transiger

• “transaction”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012