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Transaction vs Calling - What's the difference?

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Transaction is a related term of calling.


As nouns the difference between transaction and calling

is that transaction is the act of conducting or carrying out (business, negotiations, plans) while calling is a strong urge to become religious.

As a verb calling is

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transaction

English

(wikipedia 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

    • Related terms

    * transact * transactional * transactive

    See also

    * piece of the action ----

    calling

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A strong urge to become religious.
  • A job or occupation.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=70, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Engineers of a different kind , passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling , if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.}}

    Synonyms

    * vocation