procedure vs transaction

procedure

noun
  • The steps taken in an action or other legal proceeding. 

  • A particular method for performing a task. 

  • A series of small tasks or steps taken to accomplish an end. 

  • A subroutine or function coded to perform a specific task, but does not return a value. 

  • A surgical operation. 

  • The set of established forms or methods of an organized body for accomplishing a certain task or tasks. 

transaction

noun
  • The act of conducting or carrying out (business, negotiations, plans). 

  • A social interaction. 

  • A record of the proceedings of a learned society. 

  • An exchange or trade, as of ideas, money, goods, etc. 

  • A deal or business agreement. 

  • The transfer of funds into, out of, or from an account. 

  • 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). 

How often have the words procedure and transaction occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )