stipulation vs transaction

stipulation

noun
  • Something that is stated or stipulated as a condition of an agreement. 

  • The situation, arrangement, and structure of the stipules. 

  • The act of stipulating; a contracting or bargaining; an agreement. 

  • A goal to be achieved in a chess problem; for example, to checkmate Black within a specified number of moves. 

transaction

noun
  • A deal or business agreement. 

  • A social interaction. 

  • A record of the proceedings of a learned society. 

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

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

  • 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 stipulation and transaction occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )