procedure

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pɹəˈsiːd͡ʒə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /pɹəˈsid͡ʒɚ/

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• Hyphenation: pro‧ced‧ure

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.
   • 1832, [Isaac Taylor], Saturday Evening. […], London: Holdsworth and Ball, →OCLC:

     Gracious procedures.

5. (obsolete) That which results; issue; product.
   • 1631, Francis [Bacon], “(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:

     There is not any known Substance, but Earth, and the Procedure of Earth (as Tile, Stone, &c.) that yeeldeth any Moss or Herby Substance.

6. (computing) A subroutine or function coded to perform a specific task, but does not return a value.
7. (medicine) A surgical operation.

• (method): algorithm, method, process, routine
• (set of established forms or methods of an organized body): protocol
• (computing): function, routine, sub, subroutine, method (although some of these have slightly differing meanings in some programming languages)
• (medicine): operation

• administrative procedure
• (computing): stored procedure

• proceed
• process
• procession

• “procedure”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “procedure”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

• reproduce

Borrowed from Middle French procedure.

• IPA^(key): /ˌproːsəˈdyːrə/

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• Hyphenation: pro‧ce‧du‧re
• Rhymes: -yːrə

procedure f (plural procedures)

1. procedure

• afzettingsprocedure

• → Indonesian: prosedur

• produceer, producere

procedure f

1. plural of procedura

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

1. procedure (particular method for performing a task)

• procés, proces
• proceder

• → English: procedure
• French: procédure