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Trading vs Transaction - What's the difference?

trading | transaction |

As nouns the difference between trading and transaction

is that trading is the carrying on of trade while transaction is the act of conducting or carrying out (business, negotiations, plans).

As a verb trading

is .

As an adjective trading

is carrying on trade or commerce; engaged in trade.

trading

English

Verb

(head)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Carrying on trade or commerce; engaged in trade.
  • a trading company
  • (obsolete, rare) Frequented by traders.
  • * Milton
  • they on the trading flood
  • (obsolete) venal; corrupt; jobbing
  • a trading politician

    Noun

  • The carrying on of trade.
  • * Bible, Revelations
  • But thy riches and thy tradings , thy merchandise, and they who trade thy traffic, shall fall into the heart of the seas

    Derived terms

    * program trading (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

    *

    transaction

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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
  • See also

    * piece of the action ----