procedure

See also: procédure

English

Etymology

From French procédure, from Old French, from Latin procedere (“to go forward, proceed”); see proceed.

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /pɹəˈsiːdʒə/
  • (US) IPA(key): /pɹəˈsidʒɚ/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Hyphenation: pro‧ced‧ure

Noun

procedure (countable and uncountable, plural procedures)

  1. A particular method for performing a task.
    • 2014 June 14, “It's a gas”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8891:
      One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.
  2. A series of small tasks or steps taken to accomplish an end.
  3. (uncountable) The set of established forms or methods of an organized body for accomplishing a certain task or tasks.
    Ensure that you follow procedure when accessing customers' personal information.
  4. The steps taken in an action or other legal proceeding.
  5. (obsolete) That which results; issue; product.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)
  6. (computing) A subroutine or function coded to perform a specific task.
  7. (medicine) A surgical operation.

Synonyms

Hyponyms

Translations
set of established forms or methods of an organized body
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Further reading
  • procedure in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • procedure in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Anagrams

Dutch

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /proːsəˈdyːrə/
  • Audio(file)

Noun

procedure f (plural procedures)

  1. procedure

Anagrams

Italian

Noun

procedure f

  1. plural of procedura

Old French

Noun

procedure f (oblique plural procedures, nominative singular procedure, nominative plural procedures)

  1. procedure (particular method for performing a task)

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