transactionnoun [ C or U ]
uk/trænˈzæk.ʃən/us/trænˈzæk.ʃən/C1 an occasion when someone buys or sells something, or when money is exchanged or the activity of buying or selling something:
a business transaction
Each transaction at the foreign exchange counter seems to take forever.
We need to monitor the transaction of smaller deals.
More examples
- You can call your bank and perform a transaction using a Touch-Tone phone.
- The legality of the transaction is still under adjudication in the courts.
- There was no financial transaction between us.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Buying & selling - general words
- all-you-can-eat
- barter
- black market
- bottom
- brokerage
- channel
- cold-calling
- desk research
- first refusal
- high street
- hock
- market share
- pawn
- pay
- supply and demand idiom
- the grey market
- trade
- trade route
- trading
- under the counter idiom
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