{
  "id": "deal.transaction",
  "term": "deal",
  "sense": "transaction",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 14,
  "arena": "social",
  "domain": "economics",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a change where one thing gives something to another thing and receives something back",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "change.process",
      "give.transfer",
      "receive.communication",
      "back.spatial"
    ],
    "interaction": "One thing gives something to another and receives something back, forming a reciprocal exchange.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "reciprocity",
      "two-way flow",
      "spatial reversibility"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "In 2019, Amazon paid $970 million to acquire the MGM film library and received full rights to its 4,000-title catalog.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 1972 SALT I treaty saw the U.S. and USSR exchange limits on missile launchers for mutual verification access.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "Photosystem II in spinach chloroplasts splits water molecules, releasing electrons and receiving photons at 680 nm.",
      "domain": "biology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "interaction.process",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": "a deal is a kind of interaction"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "deal",
    "dealing",
    "deals",
    "dealt"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Added 'back.spatial' to components to align with the reciprocal nature implied in the definition. The 'back' component is essential for capturing the return direction in the exchange."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-deal.transaction"
}