procedure
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4.4
- noun
- /prəˈsiːdʒər/
- Formal
:
procedimiento
- There is no established procedure that will tell us the proper name of the agent.
- rules of procedure
- civil procedure
- laws and procedures
Yeah, well, don't you know the procedure for getting it cleared?
- Yeah, well, don't you know the procedure for getting it cleared?
- So by this time the whole, the whole post incident procedure has changed.
- But regulation procedures make that process very slow in the Western world.
- Could this be the result of some systematic bias in school identification procedures?
- She says that's because her procedure was on the House.
Examples
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According to the constitutional procedure, the one essential signature is that of the Vice President.
Fiction book (1990) -
Our standard procedure is to call a new patient John or Jane Doe if their real names aren't known.
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What, what would be the correct procedure to get into your firm?
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Then they tried to get, you know, a hurry up procedure established in the court.
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Before we do the procedure, the law says we have to ask you a few questions.
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I am aware of police procedures, of what you can do and what is impossible.
Fiction book (1990) -
And I think a uniform congressional procedure would be would be desirable.
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Before we do the procedure, the law says we have to ask you a few questions.
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We're not going to get anywhere unless we follow rules of parliamentary procedure.
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We're going through this elaborate procedure simply out of precaution.
Synonyms
159
7.5
Official legal actions in a court case
37
3.1
A usual way of doing something that people follow in a situation
12
4.8
A formal set of actions in court that a judge uses to decide a dispute
3
6.4
A set of formal rules for running meetings and debates
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
27
3.7
An action by doctors or dentists to check, treat and prevent health problems
15
3.4
A list of steps to use a machine or to deal with a specific situation safely
- Formal
12
4.3
A set of steps people follow the same way every time to do a task safely and correctly
4
3.9
A set of steps to follow in a sudden dangerous or medical situation to keep people safe
- Specialized
1
4.4
A medical test or process to find the cause of a health problem
- Formal
1
7.2
An official process with many slow, pointless steps that delays decisions
- Specialized
A saved set of commands in a library that a program can run by name
- Specialized
A test where words are removed and you fill in the blanks to check reading or teach computers to read
- Specialized
A treatment that helps people face a fear step by step until they feel less scared
- Specialized
An experiment where neither the people nor the researchers know who gets the real medicine
- Specialized
A lab method that stains bacteria to show if they have thick or thin cell walls
- Formal
A regular set of steps people in an organization must follow
How Official
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Procedure comes from an old Latin word made of pro- 'forward' and cedere 'to go', a root also in process and proceed. That's why in law and meetings a procedure means the official steps you must follow.