as in sales
the transfer of ownership of something from one person to another for a price
if you want to return any merchandise, make sure you keep the receipt for the initial sales transaction
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Recent Examples of transactions
When people can move for jobs, metro areas with more housing transactions see significantly higher employment and gross product growth.
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Preston Fore, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2025
The Secretary of State’s office aims to become the first state agency in Ohio to accept fees using cryptocurrency, which processes nearly half a million payment transactions annually.
—Alex Perry, Cincinnati Enquirer, 26 Sep. 2025
Welcome to Sportico’s transactions wire, a weekly rundown of personnel, partnerships, products and purchases across the sports business industry.
—Sportico Staff, Sportico.com, 26 Sep. 2025
Traditional businesses in Miami and Doral — two cities with a strong Hispanic business presence — are adopting cryptocurrencies to carry out transactions with Latin America.
—Sonia Osorio, Miami Herald, 26 Sep. 2025
Employee equity compensation transactions and accounts managed by advisors or intermediaries through Fidelity Clearing & Custody Solutions® are subject to different commission schedules.
—Kelsey Neubauer, CNBC, 25 Sep. 2025
In the study, a team from Dartmouth College studied data from cloud-computing management company Snowflake on roughly 63 million donors and 788 million transactions.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 25 Sep. 2025
The Pinole deal, along with prior transactions involving apartment hubs in Berkeley and San Jose, shows Sack Capital has become a player in purchases of multiple residential complexes in the Bay Area in recent weeks.
—George Avalos, Mercury News, 25 Sep. 2025
And there had been no trace of him – no credit card transactions, no phone activity – since the girls were killed, Morrison said Friday.
—Zoe Sottile, CNN Money, 20 Sep. 2025
Preston Fore, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2025
The Secretary of State’s office aims to become the first state agency in Ohio to accept fees using cryptocurrency, which processes nearly half a million payment transactions annually.
—Alex Perry, Cincinnati Enquirer, 26 Sep. 2025
Welcome to Sportico’s transactions wire, a weekly rundown of personnel, partnerships, products and purchases across the sports business industry.
—Sportico Staff, Sportico.com, 26 Sep. 2025
Traditional businesses in Miami and Doral — two cities with a strong Hispanic business presence — are adopting cryptocurrencies to carry out transactions with Latin America.
—Sonia Osorio, Miami Herald, 26 Sep. 2025
Employee equity compensation transactions and accounts managed by advisors or intermediaries through Fidelity Clearing & Custody Solutions® are subject to different commission schedules.
—Kelsey Neubauer, CNBC, 25 Sep. 2025
In the study, a team from Dartmouth College studied data from cloud-computing management company Snowflake on roughly 63 million donors and 788 million transactions.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 25 Sep. 2025
The Pinole deal, along with prior transactions involving apartment hubs in Berkeley and San Jose, shows Sack Capital has become a player in purchases of multiple residential complexes in the Bay Area in recent weeks.
—George Avalos, Mercury News, 25 Sep. 2025
And there had been no trace of him – no credit card transactions, no phone activity – since the girls were killed, Morrison said Friday.
—Zoe Sottile, CNN Money, 20 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for transactions
sales
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How much of this money winds up coming right back to Nvidia in the form of sales is again, difficult to determine.—
Jeremy Kahn,
Fortune,
28 Sep. 2025
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Bible sales through August 2025 reached 10 million copies, marking an increase of more than one million compared to the same period last year, according to BookScan.—
Ashley J. DiMella,
FOXNews.com,
28 Sep. 2025
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“Transactions.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/transactions. Accessed 1 Oct. 2025.
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