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 [prəˈsiːdʒə]

n

1. a way of acting or progressing in a course of action, esp an established method

2. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) the established mode or form of conducting the business of a legislature, the enforcement of a legal right, etc.

3. (Electronics & Computer Science / Computer Science) Computing another name for subroutine

procedural  adj

procedurally  adv

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procedure

• process, procedure - A process is a set or series of actions directed to some end or a natural series of changes; a procedure is a series of actions conducted in a certain manner, an established way of doing something.
• ceremonially, ceremoniously - Ceremonially relates to the performance of a procedure; ceremoniously relates to the performer of the procedure.
• procedure, process, proceed - Procedure, process, and proceed come from Latin procedere, "to go forward."
• seder - The Hebrew word for "order, procedure"; it is the ceremonial Jewish dinner held on the first night of Passover.

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 He did not follow the correct procedure in applying for a visa.

Translations

procedure [prəʊˈsiːdʒə^r] n

(= process) → procédure f
safety procedures → procédures de sécurité

(= method) → procédure f
to be standard procedure → être une procédure standard
to follow the correct procedure → suivre la procédure indiquée
a change in procedure → un changement de procédure

(= operation) → procédure f
a surgical procedure → une procédure chirurgicale

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procedure

n → Verfahren nt; parliamentary/legal procedure → parlamentarisches/gerichtliches Verfahren; what would be the correct procedure in such a case? → wie geht man in einem solchen Falle vor?, wie verfährt man in einem solchen Falle?; business procedure → geschäftliche Verfahrensweise; rules of procedure → Vorschriften pl; questions of procedure → verfahrenstechnische or (Jur) → verfahrensrechtliche Fragen pl; procedure-oriented (Comput) → prozedurorientiert

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procedure [prəˈsiːdʒəʳ] n (Admin, Law) → procedura
the usual procedure is to ... → la procedura normale or prassi è di...
cashing a cheque is a simple procedure → riscuotere un assegno è un'operazione semplice

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procedure

n procedure [prəˈsiːdʒə]

the order or method of doing something They followed the usual procedure(s). prosedure إجْراء، أصول، طريقَه процедура procedura procedure; metode das Verfahren διαδικασία procedimiento menetlus شیوه؛ روش menettely procédure נוֹהָל कार्यविधि eljárás(mód) prosedur aðferð procedura, prassi 手順 순서 procedūra, darbo tvarka/būdas procedūra; process; norise prosedur procedure framgangsmåte; prosedyre sposób postępowania, procedura procedimento procedură процедура procedúra postopek procedura procedur ขั้นตอน işlem 過程，步驟，程序 процедура اسلوب کار، طريقۂ کار thủ tục 过程，步骤，程序

adj proˈcedural

prosedureel إجْرائي процедурен procedurální proceduremæssig Verfahrens-... διαδικαστικός de procedimiento protseduuri- مربوط به شیوه کار menettelytapa- de procédure נוֹהָלִי कार्यविधि संबन्धी ügyrendi, napirendi menurut prosedur sem lÿtur að aðferð/starfsháttum procedurale 手続き上の 절차적인 procedūros, procedūrinis procedūras-; procesuāls tatacara procedureel som angår framgangsmåten proceduralny processual procedural; de pro­ce­dură процедурный procedurálny proceduralen proceduralan procedurmässig ซึ่งเป็นขั้นตอน işlemsel 程序上的 процедурний طريقظ کار سے متعلق theo thủ tục 程序上的