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Webster 1913 Edition
Procedure
1.
The act or manner of proceeding or moving forward; progress; process; operation; conduct.
“The true procedure of conscience.” South.
2.
A step taken; an act performed; a proceeding; the steps taken in an action or other legal proceeding.
“Gracious procedures.” I. Taylor.
3.
That which results; issue; product.
[Obs.]
Bacon.
Webster 1828 Edition
Procedure
PROCE'DURE
,Noun.
1.
Manner of proceeding; management; conduct.2.
That which proceeds from something; produce. [Not in use.]Definition 2024
procedure
procedure
See also: procédure
English
Noun
procedure (countable and uncountable, plural procedures)
- 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.
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- A series of small tasks or steps taken to accomplish an end.
- (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.
- The steps taken in an action or other legal proceeding.
- Isaac Taylor (1787–1865)
- Gracious procedures.
- Isaac Taylor (1787–1865)
- (obsolete) That which results; issue; product.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Bacon to this entry?)
- (computing) A subroutine or function coded to perform a specific task.
- (medicine) A surgical operation.
Synonyms
- (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
Hyponyms
- administrative procedure
- (computing): stored procedure
Related terms
Translations
method for performing a task
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series of small tasks to accomplish an end
set of established forms or methods of an organized body
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steps taken in a legal proceeding
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computing: subroutine or function coded to perform a specific task
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External links
- procedure in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- procedure in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
Anagrams
Old French
Noun
procedure f (oblique plural procedures, nominative singular procedure, nominative plural procedures)
- procedure (particular method for performing a task)