transaction.

1. An exchange or piece of business in which something is transferred between parties.

2. A group of database operations treated as one unit that succeeds or fails together.

3. A published record of a learned society's meetings, papers, or other activities.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• financial transaction
• commercial transaction

On the page

The bank flagged the unusual transaction for review.

Usage notes

Primary category: economics / business / social science. Forms: Singular transaction; plural transactions. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: analysis, evaluation, business. Commonness: common.