different between pact vs transaction

English

Etymology

From Middle French pacte, from Old French, from Latin pactum (“something agreed upon”), from paciscere (“to agree”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pækt/
• Rhymes: -ækt
• Homophone: packed

Noun

pact (plural pacts)

1. An agreement; a compact; a covenant.
2. (international law) An agreement between two or more nations

Derived terms

• pactless
• sex pact
• suicide pact

Translations

Verb

pact (third-person singular simple present pacts, present participle pacting, simple past and past participle pacted)

1. (intransitive) To form a pact; to agree formally.
   • 1992, John Higley, Richard Gunther, Elites and Democratic Consolidation in Latin America and Southern Europe (page 129)

     When national elites pacted in Mexico, they pacted to the advantage of the elites as against the masses and also to the advantage of the center as against the provinces.

Further reading

• pact in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• pact in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• pact at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Capt, Capt., P.C.A.T., PCAT, PTCA, TCAP, capt

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

pact n (plural pacten, diminutive pactje n)

1. pact

Derived terms

• Warschaupact

Romanian

Etymology

From French pacte, from Latin pactum.

Noun

pact n (plural pacte)

1. pact

Declension

English

Etymology

From Middle French, from Old French transaccion, from Late Latin transactio.

Pronunciation

• enPR: tr?n-z?k'sh?n, IPA^(key): /t?æn?zæk??n/
• Rhymes: -æk??n

Noun

transaction (plural transactions)

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

   The transaction was made on Friday with the supplier.

2. A deal or business agreement. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
3. An exchange or trade, as of ideas, money, goods, etc.

   I made the transaction with the vendor as soon as she showed me the pearls.

4. (finance) The transfer of funds into, out of, or from an account.
5. (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).
6. (especially in plural) A record of the proceedings of a learned society.
7. (in transactional analysis) A social interaction.

Related terms

Translations

See also

• piece of the action

Anagrams

• incantators

French

Etymology

From Latin transactio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t???.zak.sj??/

Noun

transaction f (plural transactions)

1. transaction (clarification of this definition is needed)

Further reading

• “transaction” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).