transaction

Money changes hands

A transaction is an exchange between parties—typically a business deal involving goods, services, or money: The transaction was completed in seconds.

In computing, a transaction is a sequence of operations treated as a single unit that either succeeds completely or fails completely, preventing partial updates.

More broadly, any instance of conducting business or affairs: diplomatic transactions between nations.

purchase

sale

Exchange for payment

  • buyerOne who acquires things
  • sellerOne who trades goods
  • receiptWritten payment acknowledgment

invoice · checkout · retail · point-of-sale · merchandise · vendor · customer · register · refund · exchange

financial

payment

Fulfilling a financial obligation

credit · funds · remittance · settlement · disbursement · clearing · posting · balance · ledger · statement

business

deal

Agreement or distribution

merger · acquisition · closing · terms · parties · broker · escrow · due diligence · valuation · signing

trade

exchange

Mutual giving and receiving

import · export · broker · arbitrage · clearing · settlement · futures · spot · forex · securities

digital

blockchain

Cryptographic linked transaction record

wallet · confirmation · mining · node · immutable · encrypted · peer-to-peer · token · smart contract · timestamp

database

commit

Bind to a course

log · isolation · concurrency · ACID · lock · batch · integrity · consistency · durability · SQL

Categories
Opposites
exchange type

transactiongift

Item given freely

donation · grant · bequest · charity · handout

action vs. inaction

transactioninaction

Deliberate nonmovement

inactivity · passivity · idleness · quiescence · rest

acceptance vs. rejection

transactionrefusal

Act of declining

rejection · denial · cancellation · veto · rebuff

Phrases
Family

transactions, transactional, transacting

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