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# transaction

«transaction» in Mova's school dictionary: **an act of buying or selling something, or of moving…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a transaction, transactions)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A transaction is an act of buying or selling something, or of moving money, such as paying in a shop, withdrawing cash or sending money online. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transaction/#m1)

2) (formal) A transaction is any piece of business or exchange between people or organisations. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transaction/#m2)

3) (computing) A transaction is a set of computer actions that must all happen together or not at all, as in banking systems. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transaction/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In maths and money lessons, transactions appear in problems with prices, change, bank statements, credits and debits. In everyday life, card payments, receipts and bank apps show transactions. In online safety, check your transactions and never share bank details. Phrases: "make a transaction", "cash transaction", "online transaction", "transaction fee".

### examples

- Every transaction is printed on the receipt. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transaction/#x1)
- The bank statement lists all our transactions for the month. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transaction/#x2)
- The shop charges a small transaction fee for card payments. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transaction/#x3)
- Buying a house is a big transaction. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transaction/#x4)
- The transaction was declined because there wasn't enough money. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transaction/#x5)
- If you start with £20 and make transactions of −£5, +£12 and −£8, you end with £19. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transaction/#x6)
- Online transactions must be kept safe and secret. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transaction/#x7)
- The Soldier now put on the coat, and dipped his hands into the pockets, to assure himself of the reality of the transaction. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transaction/#x8)

### note

Countable. Verb: transact (formal); adjective: transactional. In maths, a transaction usually changes a balance: money in is added (credit), money out is subtracted (debit).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «transaction» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transaction/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.