TRANSACTION
Dictionary entry overview: What does transaction mean?
• TRANSACTION (noun)
The noun TRANSACTION has 1 sense:
1. the act of transacting within or between groups (as carrying on commercial activities)
Familiarity information: TRANSACTION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• TRANSACTION (noun)
Meaning:
The act of transacting within or between groups (as carrying on commercial activities)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
transaction; dealing; dealings
Context examples:
no transactions are possible without him / he has always been honest is his dealings with me
Hypernyms ("transaction" is a kind of...):
group action (action taken by a group of people)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "transaction"):
commerce; commercialism; mercantilism (transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services))
rental; renting (the act of paying for the use of something (as an apartment or house or car))
borrowing (obtaining funds from a lender)
uptick (a transaction in the stock market at a price above the price of the preceding transaction)
downtick (a transaction in the stock market at a price below the price of the preceding transaction)
business deal; deal; trade (a particular instance of buying or selling)
exchange (the act of giving something in return for something received)
transfer; transference (transferring ownership)
operations; trading operations (financial transactions at a brokerage; having to do with the execution of trades and keeping customer records)
affairs (transactions of professional or public interest)
Instance hyponyms:
Seward's Folly (the transaction in 1867 in which the United States secretary of state William Henry Seward purchased Alaska from Russia)
