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Transaction vs Fulfilment - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between transaction and fulfilment

is that transaction is the act of conducting or carrying out (business, negotiations, plans) while fulfilment is the act of fulfilling.

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 ----

    fulfilment

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (chiefly US) fulfillment

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of fulfilling.
  • The state or quality of being fulfilled; completion; realization.

    • References

    * The Random House College Dictionary 1973