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# transactions

«transactions» in Mova's school dictionary: **acts of buying, selling, paying or moving money, like…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a transaction, transactions — this is the plural)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Transactions are acts of buying, selling, paying or moving money, like paying at a till or moving money between bank accounts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transactions/#m1)

2) (formal) Transactions are dealings or exchanges between people or groups. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transactions/#m2)

3) (formal) Transactions can also be the written record of what a society or meeting did, as in a scientific journal's title. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transactions/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In maths and money lessons, transactions appear in bank statements and shop problems: each transaction adds or takes away money. In everyday life: card transactions, online transactions, a «transaction fee». Banks keep a list of transactions so you can check where money went.

### examples

- The shop made 300 transactions on Saturday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transactions/#x1)
- Mum checked the transactions on her bank statement. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transactions/#x2)
- Every transaction at the till prints a receipt. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transactions/#x3)
- Some online transactions need a code sent to a phone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transactions/#x4)
- In this game, record each transaction in your money table. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transactions/#x5)
- The bank charges a fee for some transactions. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transactions/#x6)
- Kim had £20, then made two transactions of £5 each, so £10 was left. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transactions/#x7)

### note

Plural of «transaction» (countable). In a money problem, a deposit adds money and a payment or withdrawal takes it away; add or subtract each transaction in order. «Transactions» of a society means its published reports – a formal, old use.

### Trees and pragmatics

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