n. The act of conducting or carrying out (business, negotiations, plans).n. A deal or business agreement.n. An exchange or trade, as of ideas, money, goods, etc.n. The transfer of funds into, out of, or from an account.n. An atomic operation; a message, data modification, or other procedure that is guaranteed to perform completely or not at all (e.g. a database transaction).n. A record of the proceedings of a learned society