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TRANSACTION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of transacting within or between groups (as carrying on commercial activities)
Example:
he has always been honest is his dealings with me
Synonyms:
dealing; dealings; transaction
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
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))
affairs (transactions of professional or public interest)
operations; trading operations (financial transactions at a brokerage; having to do with the execution of trades and keeping customer records)
transfer; transference (transferring ownership)
exchange (the act of giving something in return for something received)
business deal; deal; trade (a particular instance of buying or selling)
downtick (a transaction in the stock market at a price below the price of the preceding transaction)
uptick (a transaction in the stock market at a price above the price of the preceding transaction)
borrowing (obtaining funds from a lender)
rental; renting (the act of paying for the use of something (as an apartment or house or car))
Instance hyponyms:
Seward's Folly (the transaction in 1867 in which the United States Secretary of State William Henry Seward purchased Alaska from Russia)
Derivation:
transact (conduct business)
Context examples:
None of that upright integrity, that strict adherence to truth and principle, that disdain of trick and littleness, which a man should display in every transaction of his life.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
DNA Topology Regulation involves DNA topoisomerases that catalyze essential DNA transaction processes, including DNA strand scission, manipulation, and rejoining, in order to attain a balanced topology of the genome.
(DNA Topology Regulation, NCI Thesaurus)
It took him long to explain to her the nature of the transaction which had put the money into his possession, and longer still to get her to understand that the money was really hers and that he did not need it.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
As I was already in debt to my tradesmen, the advance was a great convenience, and yet there was something unnatural about the whole transaction which made me wish to know a little more before I quite committed myself.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But I shall not anticipate the reader with further descriptions of this kind, because I reserve them for a greater work, which is now almost ready for the press; containing a general description of this empire, from its first erection, through along series of princes; with a particular account of their wars and politics, laws, learning, and religion; their plants and animals; their peculiar manners and customs, with other matters very curious and useful; my chief design at present being only to relate such events and transactions as happened to the public or to myself during a residence of about nine months in that empire.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
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.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
That they were false, the general had learnt from the very person who had suggested them, from Thorpe himself, whom he had chanced to meet again in town, and who, under the influence of exactly opposite feelings, irritated by Catherine's refusal, and yet more by the failure of a very recent endeavour to accomplish a reconciliation between Morland and Isabella, convinced that they were separated forever, and spurning a friendship which could be no longer serviceable, hastened to contradict all that he had said before to the advantage of the Morlands—confessed himself to have been totally mistaken in his opinion of their circumstances and character, misled by the rhodomontade of his friend to believe his father a man of substance and credit, whereas the transactions of the two or three last weeks proved him to be neither; for after coming eagerly forward on the first overture of a marriage between the families, with the most liberal proposals, he had, on being brought to the point by the shrewdness of the relator, been constrained to acknowledge himself incapable of giving the young people even a decent support.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
They looked up the transaction in their day-book and letter-book, and at once telephoned to their King's Cross office for more details.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Why, Mr. Micawber has entered the transactions—he calls them transactions—with great form, in a book, rejoined Traddles, smiling; and he makes the amount a hundred and three pounds, five.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Capricorn also rules big financial transactions, so you might work on the stock exchange or for a hedge fund or venture capital firm.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
