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{
"term": "transaction",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "a piece of business that is done between people, especially an act of buying or selling",
"sensetop": "transaction (between A and B)",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "financial transactions between companies"
},
{
"text": "commercial transactions"
},
{
"text": "Electronic banking may make over-the-counter transactions obsolete."
},
{
"text": "The president had entered into fraudulent property transactions."
},
{
"text": "The system records all transactions between the company and its suppliers."
},
{
"text": "Transactions in land are frequently handled by an estate agent."
},
{
"text": "Using the internet can significantly reduce transaction costs."
},
{
"text": "foreign currency transactions"
},
{
"text": "transactions over the internet"
}
],
"synonyms": "deal",
"topics": ["Business", "Shopping"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["cross-border", "international", "private"],
"verb + transaction": ["carry out", "conduct", "do"],
"transaction + verb": ["proceed", "take place"],
"transaction + noun": ["charges", "cost"],
"preposition": ["transaction between", "transaction over"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "the process of doing something",
"sensetop": "transaction of something",
"labels": "(formal)",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "the transaction of government business"
}
],
"topics": ["Business"]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/trænˈzækʃn/",
"audio": "tr/transaction/transaction__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/trænˈzækʃn/",
"audio": "tr/transaction/transaction__us_1_rr.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late Middle English (as a term in Roman Law): from late Latin transactio(n-), from transigere ‘drive through’, from trans- ‘through’ + agere ‘do, lead’."
}