transaction

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: B2 — Upper-Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun the act of transacting within or between groups (as carrying on commercial activities)

Borrowed from Middle French transaction, from Old French transaccion, from Late Latin transactio.

Transaction accounts, reserves, statements, credit cards. — Terminal Compromise, Winn Schwartau
The transaction occurred in this city. — Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror, Trumbull White
--"Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature," 1897. — Shakespeare's family, C. C. (Charlotte Carmichael) Stopes

dealing, dealings

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