transaction

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

TRANSAC'TION, noun The doing or performing of any business; management of any affair. 1. That which is done; an affair. We are not to expect in history a minute detail of every transaction 2. In the civil law, an adjustment of a dispute between parties by mutual agreement.
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