Generalship vs Transaction - What's the difference?
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The position or office of a general.
The term of office of a military general.
:George Washington's generalship was marked by both amazing victories and stunning blunders, neither of which would have happened to someone with more formal officer training.
The skills or performance of a good general; military leadership, strategy.
*1990 , (Peter Hopkirk), The Great Game , Folio Society 2010, p. 277:
*:At the same time, awed by the brilliant and daring generalship which had enabled the Russian to capture their city with so small a force, the elders gave him the honorific title of ‘Lion of Tashkent’.
*2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 136:
*:Virtually the whole of the region fell to Saxe's ingenious generalship .
By extension, leadership, good management.
:Under my generalship my fine troop of brats picked up every scrap of litter in that lot.
The act of conducting or carrying out (business, negotiations, plans).
A deal or business agreement.
An exchange or trade, as of ideas, money, goods, etc.
(finance) The transfer of funds into, out of, or from an account.
(computing) 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).
(especially in plural) A record of the proceedings of a learned society