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.
In confirmation of this, she related the particulars of all the pecuniary transactions in which they had been connected, without actually naming her authority, but stating it to be such as might be relied on.
Cornelius may be with whom a retired builder has such very large transactions.
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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