transaction
/tɹænˈzækʃən/ noun C1- 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.
- 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.
Plural transactions
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Beauchamp, solemn transactions should be sanctioned by a witness.
“With regard to our transaction, you will no doubt have observed by now that one essential detail is missing.
Clearly my poor friend had become involved in some criminal, or, at the least, disreputable, transaction which touched the family honour.
For the truth of everything here related, I can appeal more particularly to the testimony of Colonel Fitzwilliam, who, from our near relationship and constant intimacy, and still more as one of the executors of my father’s will, has been unavoidably acquainted with every particular of these transactions.
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