transaction

Definitions

General Science

  • noun one single action which affects a database, e.g. a sale, a change of address or a new customer

Accounting

  • noun an instance of doing business, e.g. a purchase in a shop or a withdrawal of money from savings

Economics

  • noun a piece of buying or selling

Electronics

  • Its abbreviation is trans. An event or activity in which something is exchanged between two entities, or which elicits a corresponding action. For example, a command which calls for a processing action, an exchange between a user and an interactive system, a change in a record which updates a master file, or an online or point of sale purchase.

Information & Library Science

  • noun an action which involves the exchange of goods or information

Law

  • noun a transfer or exchange of items between two people, often a transfer of goods in exchange for money

Politics

  • noun a piece of business done between companies or people
  • noun the process of doing something

Real Estate

  • noun an instance of doing business of some kind, e.g. the purchase of a property
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