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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
transaction
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a commercial transaction (=a business deal)
▪ The deal was a straightforward commercial transaction.
foreign exchange markets/rates/transactions etc
▪ The dollar is expected to fall in the foreign exchange markets.
process an application/claim/transaction etc
▪ All university applications are processed through this system.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
certain
▪ The initial punishment for the four securities houses had been only an instruction to refrain from certain securities transactions for four days.
▪ But member states have sometimes refused to allow currency exchanges designed to facilitate certain kinds of transaction.
▪ In some cases, they focus on a certain type of transaction to accumulate expertise in that type of deal.
▪ Williamson argues that the M-form is a more efficient way of administering certain types of transaction.
commercial
▪ However, that scheme does still apply to commercial transactions, and in these circumstances, the text does deal with both.
▪ Since travel was so slow, these commercial transactions took a long time to complete.
▪ This is how most domestic, commercial transactions are conducted.
▪ In addition to the development of new vehicles and systems, other key components of commercial transactions need to be examined.
▪ Significantly, by the end of the period coinage as cash had appeared for commercial transactions.
▪ They will be the gateway for information services, commercial transactions, and 500-digitally compressed channels.
▪ Shakespeare left a documentary trail, pellets of commercial and legal transaction that want only motivation.
▪ On the other hand, a commercial transaction devoid of any element of bounty is not within the definition.
financial
▪ In its two turbulent years so far the currency has been used only for paper financial transactions.
▪ The virtue of financial transaction was its power to rocket above other failures to communicate.
▪ In addition, customers will be able to conduct electronic information searches, complete financial transactions or choose interactive video services.
▪ Some specialize in forensic accounting investigating and interpreting bankruptcies and other complex financial transactions.
▪ The service would still be free to patients and the financial transaction would take place between the two authorities.
▪ I had receipts and detailed books for all my financial transactions.
▪ The Library needs links to Finance for the efficient processing of its financial transactions, and for real-time financial management information.
▪ In other words, Salomon carved a tiny fraction out of each financial transaction.
foreign
▪ Sooner or later every Stevenson bill came to him for discount; and every foreign transaction went via him.
▪ Both importers and exporters undertake their foreign exchange transactions near their home offices in Great Britain. 3.
▪ He resigned as chairman after an external audit criticised the way Lauda Air handled foreign currency transactions.
international
▪ Important parts of the system of international transactions, such as the Eurodollar market, are outside any control whatever.
▪ This paper is devoted primarily to harmonization of legal rights and duties arising under international transactions.
▪ Try to ascertain the financing techniques used by your own country in its international transactions with the rest of the world.
▪ Given that the harmonizing measure is to be confined to international transactions, what test is to be applied to determine internationality?
▪ The Convention is confined to international transactions, the Directive prescribes minimum rights and duties for parties to domestic transactions.
large
▪ In large transactions vendors may also negotiate a lower limit for individual items.
▪ The deal, though its precise value is closely guarded, is rumoured to rank as the largest leasing transaction of 1991.
▪ It is then clear by just how much dealing costs on large transactions have fallen.
▪ Mirror is also hit by the large number of transactions with the Maxwell private companies.
▪ Such costs suggest portfolio adjustment by means of large lumpy transactions rather than by the continuous small transactions implied by quadratic costs.
particular
▪ Obviously, it is never easy to disentangle the process leading up to a particular credit transaction from the general buying process.
▪ There would be a variety of variations in the order that the circumstances of a particular transaction might require.
▪ In particular, the transaction seemed to comply with strict rules dictating the type of assets that banks could hold.
▪ Others will be suggested by the circumstances and terms of a particular transaction.
▪ The Privacy review looks to ensure that financial and personal information is kept private, and only used for this particular transaction.
■ NOUN
business
▪ It records the twofold effect of every business transaction.
▪ In short, authentication plays an important role in the implementation of business transaction security.
▪ Accounting bases are methods of applying fundamental concepts to deal with the increasing variety of business transactions.
▪ Also, business transactions on the network are taking the form of a client-server interaction.
▪ Such a motive had always existed throughout the world in business transactions.
▪ It is governance as business transaction, and there is nothing surprising about it.
▪ Thirdly, should the measure be confined to business transactions or apply to consumer transactions as well?
▪ Step 1 involves sorting business transactions into an appropriate number of debits and credits to be entered on the accounting records.
costs
▪ After allowing for transactions costs, he concluded that very few arbitrage opportunities remained.
▪ It is estimated that processing an electronic transaction costs six times less than the cost of processing a check.
▪ Of course, this process is still subject to transactions costs.
▪ For instance, the Coase theorem admits that the market will fail if transaction costs are prohibitively high.
▪ This study appears not to have allowed for transactions costs.
▪ When they allowed for four different levels of transactions costs, they concluded that many potential opportunities for profitable arbitrage remained.
▪ Allowing for transactions costs, they found that most of the mispricings were underpricings.
▪ In a currency union these transactions costs are eliminated.
credit
▪ Obviously, it is never easy to disentangle the process leading up to a particular credit transaction from the general buying process.
▪ A separate Consumer Sale and Loan Act was to be a consumer protection statute regulating credit advertising and consumer credit transactions.
▪ Any single credit transaction will fall into at least three of these categories.
▪ But occasionally, a credit transaction may fall partly into both sides of one of the pairs of classifications.
▪ This is also true with other three-cornered credit transactions, besides car sales.
exchange
▪ Both importers and exporters undertake their foreign exchange transactions near their home offices in Great Britain. 3.
processing
▪ It was set up in 1985 as a pioneer of transaction processing monitors, but developed into a computer services company.
▪ Next year, it says, it will have a transaction processing offering.
▪ It will also include object-oriented support, conforming to Object Management Group specifications and on-line transaction processing facilities.
▪ A third alliance with a still unidentified company next month should give it a leg up on high-performance transaction processing and multi-processing.
▪ Other DCE-compliant technologies shown at the exhibition included: Transarc Corp's Encina transaction processing monitor.
▪ SuperNova 3.1 includes new database interfaces and Unix System Labs' Tuxedo transaction processing monitor.
▪ Matisse claims to be a production system fit for mission-critical heavy load transaction processing environments.
■ VERB
advise
▪ It was some business transaction he was advising her on.
apply
▪ Thirdly, should the measure be confined to business transactions or apply to consumer transactions as well?
▪ However, that scheme does still apply to commercial transactions, and in these circumstances, the text does deal with both.
▪ Instead, a business will have one set of terms which it will seek to apply to all its transactions.
▪ The Bills of Sale Acts do not apply to documents accompanying transactions in which the possession of the chattels passes.
▪ Davide began to enjoy his work even less than before; he applied himself to property transactions.
carry
▪ To facilitate the completion or carrying out of a transaction.
▪ Barclays reassured worried clients that these customers would have been unable to carry out any transactions on the site.
▪ Handle money with confidence. Carry out simple transactions, performing necessary calculations either mentally or on paper.
▪ Whilst the class were actively engaged in carrying out the transactions the students went from pair to pair and helped out.
▪ According to Friedman, money has a convenience yield in the sense that its holding saves time and effort in carrying out transactions.
▪ It was hoped that synchronising time across the Internet will give people more confidence in carrying out electronic transactions.
close
▪ Payment under such pressure establishes that the payment is not made voluntarily to close the transaction.
▪ One person close to Disney said the two parties have exchanged contracts and expect to close the transaction this month.
▪ Traditionally, for example, mainstream advertising has been separated in time and place from actually closing the transaction.
▪ The company expects to close the transaction by late June, pending approval from state regulators.
complete
▪ Furthermore, the time frame for completing the transaction may not allow the luxury of negotiating heads.
▪ The capital gains on the transactions are deferred until they complete the transaction at a future date by replacing the borrowed shares.
▪ A tiny gesture towards a desired item and a slight flick of the eyebrows is almost enough to complete most transactions.
▪ Deering said the company expects to complete the transaction this year.
▪ They were all set to proceed and were waiting for my return to complete the transaction.
▪ Once more, there is no record of his actually completing a transaction.
▪ Two youths in loose cutoff jeans stood by the bench on the sloping path, evidently completing a drug transaction.
conduct
▪ When I reach its head the man in charge goes away to conduct a transaction involving cardboard boxes.
▪ The transactions motive simply means that firms must hold cash in order to conduct normal business transactions.
enter
▪ Draw up a worksheet and enter the transactions outlined in the example above.
▪ Section 56 is breached by entering into an investment transaction in the course of or as a consequence of an unsolicited call.
▪ There are provisions enabling investors to recover loss they have suffered as a result of entering into the share transactions.
▪ No doubt the bank left it to Mr. O'Brien to procure his wife to agree to enter into the security transaction.
▪ On that basis, entering into a hazardous transaction that results in damage is, in itself, negligent.
expect
▪ For both these reasons, therefore, one would expect the transactions demand to be a function of money incomes.
▪ One person close to Disney said the two parties have exchanged contracts and expect to close the transaction this month.
▪ Deering said the company expects to complete the transaction this year.
▪ The company expects to close the transaction by late June, pending approval from state regulators.
involve
▪ However, the proposal still involves high transaction costs as it recommends an interdepartmental provincial committee advised by agricultural consultants.
▪ Step 1 involves sorting business transactions into an appropriate number of debits and credits to be entered on the accounting records.
▪ The gifted local amateur occasionally writes a piece of enduring worth, and not all commissions involve an expensive financial transaction.
▪ Since. there is a loan involved in the transaction, the lease is said to be leveraged.
▪ The second argument involves the transactions demand for holding cash balances instead of interest-bearing assets.
▪ At sentencing, the judge found by a preponderance of the evidence that Putra had been involved in both transactions.
▪ This will not affect money supply since it involves no sterling transactions and hence will not affect banks' sterling deposits.
▪ We have been well-advised and there were leading brokers, like Cazenove, involved in all these transactions.
process
▪ An unexpected internal error has occurred while processing your Client Details transaction.
▪ What is required is a satisfactory balance between technology for enabling secure transactions and the economic processing of these transactions.
▪ How to collect and process the transactions based on small-chunk retrieval so that a profit can be shown?
▪ Mail transaction has failed An unexpected error has occurred while processing your mail transaction.
▪ It is estimated that processing an electronic transaction costs six times less than the cost of processing a check.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ All meetings for the transaction of business are open to the public.
▪ Most transactions are processed by computer at our Head Office.
▪ real estate transactions
▪ When the transaction is complete it will be at least two weeks before you receive your copy of the contract.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A committee of the board will have to review construction transactions of $ 250, 000 to $ 1 million.
▪ By contrast Conventions regulating transactions are concerned almost exclusively with business transactions.
▪ Deering said the company expects to complete the transaction this year.
▪ In transactions between commercial parties, however, the constraints are usually non-existent or vague.
▪ It will cut transaction times to 12 seconds from 18 seconds.
▪ The third category relates to private transactions, where an equality of bargaining power is usually to be presumed.
▪ You should either continue with further mail transactions or select another option.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Transaction

Transaction \Trans*ac"tion\, n. [L. transactio, fr. transigere, transactum, to drive through, carry through, accomplish, transact; trans across, over + agere to drive; cf. F. transaction. See Act, Agent.]

  1. The doing or performing of any business; management of any affair; performance.

  2. That which is done; an affair; as, the transactions on the exchange.

  3. (Civil Law) An adjustment of a dispute between parties by mutual agreement.

    Transaction of a society, the published record of what it has done or accomplished.

    Syn: Proceeding; action; process.

    Usage: Transaction, Proceeding. A transaction is something already done and completed; a proceeding is either something which is now going on, or, if ended, is still contemplated with reference to its progress or successive stages.

    Note: `` We the word proceeding in application to an affray in the street, and the word transaction to some commercial negotiation that has been carried on between certain persons. The proceeding marks the manner of proceeding, as when we speak of the proceedings in a court of law. The transaction marks the business transacted; as, the transactions on the Exchange.''
    --Crabb.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
transaction

mid-15c., "the adjustment of a dispute, a negotiated agreement, management or settlement of an affair," from Old French transaccion "exchange, transaction," from Late Latin transactionem (nominative transactio) "an agreement, accomplishment," noun of action from past participle stem of transigere "stab through; accomplish, perform, drive or carry through, come to a settlement," from trans- "through" (see trans-) + agere "to drive" (see act (v.)). Meaning "a piece of business" is attested from 1640s. Related: Transactions; transactional.

Wiktionary
transaction

n. 1 The act of conducting or carrying out (business, negotiations, plans). 2 A deal or business agreement. 3 An exchange or trade, as of ideas, money, goods, etc. 4 (context finance English) The transfer of funds into, out of, or from an account. 5 (context computing English) An atomic operation; a message, data modification, or other procedure that is guaranteed to perform completely or not at all (e.g. a database transaction). 6 (context especially in plural English) A record of the proceedings of a learned society

WordNet
transaction

n. the act of transacting within or between groups (as carrying on commercial activities); "no transactions are possible without him"; "he has always been honest is his dealings with me" [syn: dealing, dealings]

Wikipedia
Transaction

Transaction or transactional may refer to:

Usage examples of "transaction".

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The following, by an eye-witness, is a condensed account of the transactions in the assembly upon the occasion of formally announcing this result.

It certainly was not a single individual who hit on the expedient of affirming the fixed forms employed by the Churches in their solemn transactions to be apostolic in the strict sense.

Directoire period the assignat becomes almost worthless, one recorded transaction giving 3,080 francs in paper for 20 in gold.

I thought the least he could do was crack another bottle of claret, seeing as he was getting eternal life dirt cheap and I was obtaining only half the profit from this bizarre transaction but he was temporarily blind and deaf to the world, barkening only to the invisible angels shouting in his ears, so I rapped loudly with the book upon the table and that brought one of his bullies in, at the double -- out of a door of a secret kind concealed in the panelling.

During this transaction the ladies were conducted to a tavern not far off, where dinner was bespoke, that they might be at hand to see the effect of their charity, which was not confined to what we have already described, but extended so far, that, in a little time, the apartment was comfortably furnished, and the young creature provided with change of apparel, and money to procure the necessaries of subsistence.

And that, at the time, you completed a transaction with this Osborne Blatch, whereby you got the fuel you needed to leave the planet, while Blatch obtained the set of pictures that were later used as illustrations in that textbook.

The Securities and Exchange Commission and other federal and state authorities take a dim view of brokerage firms that trade in the shares of companies for whom they are arranging financial transactions in the weeks before those transactions are announced.

But as it was found impossible to extort any discovery of this mysterious transaction, it seems incumbent on us either to presume the innocence, or to admire the resolution, of the sufferers.

Philosophical Transactions contain the account of a case of hydronephrosis in which there were 240 pounds of water in the sac.

Frank and the Philosophical Transactions are among the older authorities mentioning this accident.

She told Milne that she knew little of these transactions because she knew little about what was going on at Markov Enterprises.

Antonio Alvarez and Joseph Policarpio, for the execution of this design, the miscarriage of which we have related among the transactions of the preceding year.

A transaction so striking, and so public as that which had occurred on the day of the festival, when the whole people swore to avenge the murder of their Chief, it was not probable would escape the valiant eye of his mercenaries: the circumstance had been communicated to him with all the exaggerations offear and wonder, and had given him the signal for defence.

Throughout the political transactions of his premiership his grace showed much passion, and a tyranny to his colleagues in office more suitable to the barrack-room than the cabinet.