transaction C1 Topic:Business & Commerce US /tɹænˈzækʃən/ See IPA manual Freq #10143 Meanings 1 noun An instance of buying or selling something; a business deal. The bank keeps a record of every transaction on your account. 2 noun A transfer of money into or out of an account. You can view your recent transactions online. 3 noun An operation in a database that either completes fully or not at all. The database rolled back the transaction after the error. Thesaurus Synonyms 1 noun · an instance of buying or... dealingdealings Word family Forms transactions Derived forms e-transactionmicrotransactionposttransactionpretransactionsubtransactionsupertransactiontransactionaltransactionalismtransactionalizationtransactionallytransactionarytransactionless Common collocations transaction file Noun + noun Etymology AI details Borrowed from Middle French transaction, from Old French transaccion, from Late Latin transactio. *terh₂- Proto-Indo-European transaccion Old French transactio la-lat View etymology graph -> Topics Business & Commerce Word Formation & Derivatives External links Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary Google Images # transaction **Type:** Word **Level:** C1 **Part of speech:** noun **IPA (US):** /tɹænˈzækʃən/ **Frequency rank:** 10143 ## Meanings 1. An instance of buying or selling something; a business deal. 2. A transfer of money into or out of an account. 3. An operation in a database that either completes fully or not at all. ## Examples - The bank keeps a record of every transaction on your account. - You can view your recent transactions online. - The database rolled back the transaction after the error. ## Derived Forms - e-transaction - microtransaction - posttransaction - pretransaction - subtransaction - supertransaction - transactional - transactionalism - transactionalization - transactionally - transactionary - transactionless ## Roots and Affixes - Root: *terh₂- - Root: transaccion - Root: transactio ## Etymology Borrowed from Middle French transaction, from Old French transaccion, from Late Latin transactio. ## AI Etymology Transaction is borrowed from Middle French transaction, from Old French transaccion, from Late Latin transactio. The historical chain includes *terh₂- (Proto-Indo-European), transaccion (Old French), and transactio (Late Latin). The surrounding word family includes derived forms such as e-transaction, microtransaction, posttransaction, and pretransaction. In present use it covers an instance of buying or selling something; a business deal, a transfer of money into or out of an account, and an operation in a database that either completes fully or not at all. ## Topics - Business & Commerce - Word Formation & Derivatives markdown