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Transaction vs Initialism - What's the difference?

transaction | initialism |

As nouns the difference between transaction and initialism

is that transaction is the act of conducting or carrying out (business, negotiations, plans) while initialism is a term formed from the initial letter or letters of several words or parts of words, but which is itself pronounced letter by letter.

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 ----

    initialism

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia initialism) (en noun)
  • A term formed from the initial letter or letters of several words or parts of words, but which is itself pronounced letter by letter.
  • BBC is an initialism for British Broadcasting Corporation.

    See also

    * abbreviation * acronym * orphan initialism * TLA *