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TRANSACTIONS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A written account of what transpired at a meeting
Synonyms:
minutes; proceedings; transactions
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("transactions" is a kind of...):
written account; written record (a written document preserving knowledge of facts or events)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "transactions"):
Congressional Record (a published written account of the speeches and debates and votes of the United States Congress)
Hansard (the official published verbatim report of the proceedings of a parliamentary body; originally of the British Parliament)
Holonyms ("transactions" is a part of...):
minute book (a book in which minutes have been written)
Context examples:
Look where I will, I see that it is so; and I feel that it must be so, when I consider that it is, of all transactions, the one in which people expect most from others, and are least honest themselves.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
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.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
“Six tea, two salt, and a pair of sugars, I have at different times borrowed money on, in secret, with my own hands. But the twins are a great tie; and to me, with my recollections, of papa and mama, these transactions are very painful. There are still a few trifles that we could part with. Mr. Micawber's feelings would never allow him to dispose of them; and Clickett”—this was the girl from the workhouse—“being of a vulgar mind, would take painful liberties if so much confidence was reposed in her.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
There are the names, in the sweet old visionary connexion, David Copperfield and Dora Spenlow; and there, in the corner, is that Parental Institution, the Stamp Office, which is so benignantly interested in the various transactions of human life, looking down upon our Union; and there is the Archbishop of Canterbury invoking a blessing on us in print, and doing it as cheap as could possibly be expected.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Indeed, we were all more or less amused, except that miserable Mrs. Gummidge, whose courtship would appear to have been of an exactly parallel nature, she was so continually reminded by these transactions of the old one.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
These she explained to the unbounded satisfaction of the family,—children and all being then present,—and so much to the awakening of Mr. Micawber's punctual habits in the opening stage of all bill transactions, that he could not be dissuaded from immediately rushing out, in the highest spirits, to buy the stamps for his notes of hand.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
First, said Mr. Micawber, When Mr. W.'s faculties and memory for business became, through causes into which it is not necessary or expedient for me to enter, weakened and confused,—HEEP—designedly perplexed and complicated the whole of the official transactions. When Mr. W. was least fit to enter on business,—HEEP was always at hand to force him to enter on it. He obtained Mr. W.'s signature under such circumstances to documents of importance, representing them to be other documents of no importance.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The transactions in Montana copper that made him many times a millionaire found him physically robust but on the verge of soft-mindedness, and, suspecting this an infinite number of women tried to separate him from his money.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
