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TRANSACTIONS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does transactions mean? 

TRANSACTIONS (noun)
  The noun TRANSACTIONS has 1 sense:

1. a written account of what transpired at a meetingplay

  Familiarity information: TRANSACTIONS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


TRANSACTIONS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A written account of what transpired at a meeting

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

minutes; proceedings; transactions

Hypernyms ("transactions" is a kind of...):

written account; written record (a written document preserving knowledge of facts or events)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "transactions"):

Congressional Record (a published written account of the speeches and debates and votes of the United States Congress)

Hansard (the official published verbatim report of the proceedings of a parliamentary body; originally of the British Parliament)

Holonyms ("transactions" is a part of...):

minute book (a book in which minutes have been written)


 Context examples 


Sorry! yes, I hope you are sorry; and you will probably have reason to be long sorry for this day's transactions.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Why, Mr. Micawber has entered the transactions—he calls them transactions—with great form, in a book, rejoined Traddles, smiling; and he makes the amount a hundred and three pounds, five.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

NPI is assigned for use in all administrative and financial transactions specified by HIPAA.

(National Provider Identifier, NCI Thesaurus)

I confess that I should be interested to know who this Mr. Cornelius may be with whom a retired builder has such very large transactions.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Capricorn also rules big financial transactions, so you might work on the stock exchange or for a hedge fund or venture capital firm.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

But I shall not anticipate the reader with further descriptions of this kind, because I reserve them for a greater work, which is now almost ready for the press; containing a general description of this empire, from its first erection, through along series of princes; with a particular account of their wars and politics, laws, learning, and religion; their plants and animals; their peculiar manners and customs, with other matters very curious and useful; my chief design at present being only to relate such events and transactions as happened to the public or to myself during a residence of about nine months in that empire.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

In confirmation of this, she related the particulars of all the pecuniary transactions in which they had been connected, without actually naming her authority, but stating it to be such as might be relied on.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

That they were false, the general had learnt from the very person who had suggested them, from Thorpe himself, whom he had chanced to meet again in town, and who, under the influence of exactly opposite feelings, irritated by Catherine's refusal, and yet more by the failure of a very recent endeavour to accomplish a reconciliation between Morland and Isabella, convinced that they were separated forever, and spurning a friendship which could be no longer serviceable, hastened to contradict all that he had said before to the advantage of the Morlands—confessed himself to have been totally mistaken in his opinion of their circumstances and character, misled by the rhodomontade of his friend to believe his father a man of substance and credit, whereas the transactions of the two or three last weeks proved him to be neither; for after coming eagerly forward on the first overture of a marriage between the families, with the most liberal proposals, he had, on being brought to the point by the shrewdness of the relator, been constrained to acknowledge himself incapable of giving the young people even a decent support.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Chances are you already know what came up, but because a new moon has a long reach—as much as six months—you will need to keep a close eye on all financial transactions.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

We were a little like undertakers, in the Commons, as regarded Probate transactions; generally making it a rule to look more or less cut up, when we had to deal with clients in mourning.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)



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