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procedural

procedural

18 6.3
Relating to an official way of doing something
  • adjective
  • /prəˈsiːdʒərəl/
translation icon : procedimental
  • Represented clients also enjoy a clear procedural benefit: judges almost always call cases with counsel first.
  • procedural knowledge
  • procedural steps
  • procedural checklist

But isn't answering complex and novel procedural questions all we pay you knuckleheads to do?

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Examples

  • School district administrators and teachers who are familiar with procedural safeguards can minimize the potential for costly litigation.

    Academic text (2015)
  • Let's run through our procedural checklist.

  • The other type of knowledge is procedural, which is knowing how to.

  • Well, I think that takes care of all the procedural matters.

  • All procedural interventions have failed.

  • All of this information should be contained in a procedural document, and each task recorded as completed.

    Academic text (2011)
  • Furthermore, some participants talked about this difficulty from the procedural point of view.

    Academic text (2008)
  • Ethical guidance for pandemic planning is generally concerned with procedural notions of justice.

    Academic text (2012)
  • Two major types of IEP errors are most common: procedural and substantive.

    Academic text (2013)
  • The legal team prepared all necessary documents to address the procedural requirements for the case.

How Procedural

bureaucratic
93 6.7
formal
  • Formal
63 3.0
procedural
18 6.3
routine
  • Specialized
16 3.8
informal
98 3.1
ad hoc
9 7.0

Surface Forms

procedural positive

Morphology

procedural = procedure (transparent) = procedure + al

The adjective is directly formed from 'procedure' with the regular suffix '-al', meaning 'relating to a procedure'.

Etymology

Procedural comes from Latin parts pro- 'forward' and cedere 'to go', the same root behind procedure and process. So a procedural action is about following a set, often official, way to move forward or get something done.