What's the difference between transact and transaction?

Transact


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To carry through; to do; perform; to manage; as, to transact commercial business; to transact business by an agent.
  • (v. i.) To conduct matters; to manage affairs.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, some contactless transactions are processed offline so may not appear on a customer’s account until after the block has been applied.” It says payments that had been made offline on the day of cancellation may be applied to accounts and would be refunded when the customer identified them; payments made on days after the cancellation will not be taken from an account.
  • (2) It would cost their own businesses hundreds of millions of pounds in transaction costs, it would blow a massive hole in their balance of payments, it would leave them having to pick up the entirety of UK debt.
  • (3) The BBA statistics director, David Dooks, said: "It was no surprise to see the January mortgage figures falling back from December, when transactions were being pushed through to beat the end of stamp duty relief.
  • (4) During evidence in chief, he said the only people who would amend a settlement or information about a trade would be "the person who knew of the transaction, who would be the trader."
  • (5) The levy would also confirm the dramatically changing nature of Pakistan's ties with its western partners, from a strategic alliance to a transactional relationship, with deep suspicions on both sides.
  • (6) Several areas of research on childhood asthma are discussed within a transactional model of asthma.
  • (7) Many alternative, more reliable sources of public finance are out there – a tax on financial transactions would provide billions of dollars of new money for developing countries to tackle climate change head on."
  • (8) The spokesman said the role of the branch was fast moving to a “centre for advice” and away from basic transactions.
  • (9) In order for the transaction to process you have to include your full name and address.
  • (10) The temporary ban on dollar clearing means that BNP's clients must engage rival banks to send transactions through the financial system in the US.
  • (11) But when the idea of a transaction with Jeff Bezos came up, it altered my feelings."
  • (12) Contactless payments grew threefold in 2015, with more than a billion “wave and pay” transactions over the year.
  • (13) Hester also pledged that customers from other banks will be repaid for 'knock-on' costs after they were left out of pocket by an IT failure that sent 20m transactions awry.
  • (14) 1985, Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 79, 85-122).
  • (15) In another example, Colorado legislators this month had to pass a new state law to allow for a cannabis co-operative credit union that would let marijuana businesses open bank accounts and escape the murky world of cash-only transactions.
  • (16) These latter data provide indirect evidence that short-lived transacting factor(s) regulate transcription of the human bcl-2 gene in lymphoid cells with or without a t(14;18) translocation.
  • (17) "We look forward to the transaction closing as soon as possible."
  • (18) Sharply escalating the sanctions regime against Tehran, the EU also froze the Iranian central bank's assets in Europe and banned gold, precious metals and diamond transactions.
  • (19) A new perspective is needed--one that accommodates the evolving role of physicians in society, the life-style choices that physicians enable in their patients, and the respective responsibilities of both physicians and patients in physician-patient transactions.
  • (20) In the mid-elementary school-aged child the decentering process emphasized by Piaget, together with the emerging capacity for making allowance for the context within which events occur, leads to the dyadic relationship being seen by the child as being mediated through the transactions of two autonomous mental apparatuses.

Transaction


Definition:

  • (n.) The doing or performing of any business; management of any affair; performance.
  • (n.) That which is done; an affair; as, the transactions on the exchange.
  • (n.) An adjustment of a dispute between parties by mutual agreement.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, some contactless transactions are processed offline so may not appear on a customer’s account until after the block has been applied.” It says payments that had been made offline on the day of cancellation may be applied to accounts and would be refunded when the customer identified them; payments made on days after the cancellation will not be taken from an account.
  • (2) It would cost their own businesses hundreds of millions of pounds in transaction costs, it would blow a massive hole in their balance of payments, it would leave them having to pick up the entirety of UK debt.
  • (3) The BBA statistics director, David Dooks, said: "It was no surprise to see the January mortgage figures falling back from December, when transactions were being pushed through to beat the end of stamp duty relief.
  • (4) During evidence in chief, he said the only people who would amend a settlement or information about a trade would be "the person who knew of the transaction, who would be the trader."
  • (5) The levy would also confirm the dramatically changing nature of Pakistan's ties with its western partners, from a strategic alliance to a transactional relationship, with deep suspicions on both sides.
  • (6) Several areas of research on childhood asthma are discussed within a transactional model of asthma.
  • (7) Many alternative, more reliable sources of public finance are out there – a tax on financial transactions would provide billions of dollars of new money for developing countries to tackle climate change head on."
  • (8) The spokesman said the role of the branch was fast moving to a “centre for advice” and away from basic transactions.
  • (9) In order for the transaction to process you have to include your full name and address.
  • (10) The temporary ban on dollar clearing means that BNP's clients must engage rival banks to send transactions through the financial system in the US.
  • (11) But when the idea of a transaction with Jeff Bezos came up, it altered my feelings."
  • (12) Contactless payments grew threefold in 2015, with more than a billion “wave and pay” transactions over the year.
  • (13) Hester also pledged that customers from other banks will be repaid for 'knock-on' costs after they were left out of pocket by an IT failure that sent 20m transactions awry.
  • (14) 1985, Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 79, 85-122).
  • (15) In another example, Colorado legislators this month had to pass a new state law to allow for a cannabis co-operative credit union that would let marijuana businesses open bank accounts and escape the murky world of cash-only transactions.
  • (16) These latter data provide indirect evidence that short-lived transacting factor(s) regulate transcription of the human bcl-2 gene in lymphoid cells with or without a t(14;18) translocation.
  • (17) "We look forward to the transaction closing as soon as possible."
  • (18) Sharply escalating the sanctions regime against Tehran, the EU also froze the Iranian central bank's assets in Europe and banned gold, precious metals and diamond transactions.
  • (19) A new perspective is needed--one that accommodates the evolving role of physicians in society, the life-style choices that physicians enable in their patients, and the respective responsibilities of both physicians and patients in physician-patient transactions.
  • (20) In the mid-elementary school-aged child the decentering process emphasized by Piaget, together with the emerging capacity for making allowance for the context within which events occur, leads to the dyadic relationship being seen by the child as being mediated through the transactions of two autonomous mental apparatuses.