How to spell transaction

hear ittrans·ac·tion/træn'sækʃən/nounPrefixes and work

What it means: An instance of buying or selling something.

In a sentence: I made a transaction at the toy store to buy a teddy bear.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear. Often misspelled as transation or tranasction.

Same family: transact, transactional, action, interaction, contract. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Transaction” comes from Latin roots: *trans-* meaning “across” and *actus* from *agere*, meaning “to do” or “to drive.” It originally referred to the act of ‘doing something through to the end,’ which fits how a transaction completes a piece of business.

Patterns it uses: The unstressed vowel (schwa) · -tion, -sion or -cian?

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