procedure

pro·ce·dure  (pr-sjr)

n.

1. A manner of proceeding; a way of performing or effecting something: standard procedure.

2. A series of steps taken to accomplish an end: a medical procedure; evacuation procedures.

3. A set of established forms or methods for conducting the affairs of an organized body such as a business, club, or government.

4. Computer Science A set of instructions that performs a specific task; a subroutine or function.

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[French procédure, from Old French, from proceder, to proceed; see proceed.]

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procedure

Noun

1. a way of doing something, esp. an established method

2. the established form of conducting the business of a legislature

procedural adj

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	procedure - a particular course of action intended to achieve a result; "the procedure of obtaining a driver's license"; "it was a process of trial and error" process Bertillon system - a system or procedure for identifying persons fingerprinting - the procedure of taking inked impressions of a person's fingerprints for the purpose of identification genetic fingerprinting, genetic profiling - the procedure of analyzing the DNA in samples of a person's body tissue or body fluid for the purpose of identification diagnostic procedure, diagnostic technique - a procedure followed in making a medical diagnosis emergency procedure - (medicine) a procedure adopted to meet an emergency (especially a medical emergency) experimental procedure - the specific techniques used in conducting a particular experiment activity - any specific behavior; "they avoided all recreational activity" calculation, computation, computing - the procedure of calculating; determining something by mathematical or logical methods medical procedure - a procedure employed by medical or dental practitioners chromosome mapping, mapping - (genetics) the process of locating genes on a chromosome operating procedure - a procedure for operating something or for dealing with a given situation stiffening - the act of becoming stiff; "stiffening his shoulders, he prepared to advance" indirection - indirect procedure or action; "he tried to find out by indirection" rigamarole, rigmarole - a long and complicated and confusing procedure; "all that academic rigmarole was a waste of time" modus operandi, routine - an unvarying or habitual method or procedure experimental condition, condition - the procedure that is varied in order to estimate a variable's effect by comparison with a control condition formula, rule - (mathematics) a standard procedure for solving a class of mathematical problems; "he determined the upper bound with Descartes' rule of signs"; "he gave us a general formula for attacking polynomials"
	2.	procedure - a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work; "the operations in building a house"; "certain machine tool operations" operation work - activity directed toward making or doing something; "she checked several points needing further work"
	3.	procedure - a set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program subprogram, subroutine, routine, function software, software package, software program, software system, computer software, package - (computer science) written programs or procedures or rules and associated documentation pertaining to the operation of a computer system and that are stored in read/write memory; "the market for software is expected to expand" computer program, computer programme, programme, program - (computer science) a sequence of instructions that a computer can interpret and execute; "the program required several hundred lines of code" cataloged procedure - a set of control statements that have been placed in a library and can be retrieved by name contingency procedure - an alternative to the normal procedure; triggered if an unusual but anticipated situation arises library routine - a debugged routine that is maintained in a program library random number generator - a routine designed to yield a random number recursive routine - a routine that can call itself reusable routine - a routine that can be loaded once and executed repeatedly executive routine, supervisory routine - a routine that coordinates the operation of subroutines tracing routine - a routine that provides a chronological record of the execution of a computer program service routine, utility routine - a routine that can be used as needed
	4.	procedure - a mode of conducting legal and parliamentary proceedings bureaucratic procedure, red tape - needlessly time-consuming procedure objection - (law) a procedure whereby a party to a suit says that a particular line of questioning or a particular witness or a piece of evidence or other matter is improper and should not be continued and asks the court to rule on its impropriety or illegality legal proceeding, proceeding, proceedings - (law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked

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procedure

noun method, policy, process, course, system, form, action, step, performance, operation, practice, scheme, strategy, conduct, formula, custom, routine, transaction, plan of action, modus operandi

Translations

procedure [prəˈsiːdʒəʳ] n → procedimiento;

(bureaucratic) → trámites mpl;

cashing a cheque is a simple procedure → cobrar un cheque es un trámite sencillo

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procedure [prəˈsiːdʒəʳ] n (Admin, Law) → procédure f (= method); marche f à suivre, façon f de procéder

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procedure [prəˈsiːdʒəʳ] n → Verfahren nt

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procedure [prəˈsiːdʒəʳ] n (ADMIN, LAW) → procedura (= method); metodo, procedimento