transaction
noun /trænˈzækʃn/
/trænˈzækʃn/
- financial transactions between companies
- commercial transactions
Extra ExamplesTopics Businessc1, Shoppingc1- Electronic banking may make over-the-counter transactions obsolete.
- The president had entered into fraudulent property transactions.
- The system records all transactions between the company and its suppliers.
- Transactions in land are frequently handled by an estate agent.
- Using the internet can significantly reduce transaction costs.
- foreign currency transactions
- transactions over the internet
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- cross-border
- international
- private
- …
- carry out
- conduct
- do
- …
- proceed
- take place
- charges
- cost
- transaction between
- transaction over
- [uncountable] transaction of something (formal) the process of doing something
- the transaction of government business
Word Originlate Middle English (as a term in Roman Law): from late Latin transactio(n-), from transigere ‘drive through’, from trans- ‘through’ + agere ‘do, lead’.