process
- noun
- /ˈprɑːsɛs/
- Formal
- Not until that replacement is deployed can we begin a legal process of reclaiming the extorted funds.
- service of process
- electronic service of process
Examples
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The judge issued a process requiring the defendant to appear in court next week.
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-There exists a due process of law.
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Have you ever heard of due process?
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But I do believe in the judicial process.
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- Are you accusing my client of murder without due process?
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You mean besides the fact that they executed my friend in two days without due process?
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They must follow a legal process to go on strike.
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The normal appellate review process exists for that purpose.
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Most lawyers think it's only a matter of time before electronic service of process becomes commonplace.
Academic text (2011) -
Despite California families having access to a uniform complaint process, many district- and school-level problems persist.
Academic text (2013)
Synonyms
An official paper that orders someone to appear in court
A formal notice given after a claim asking people to explain why the court should not enter judgment against them
Antonyms
Idioms
Compounds
- Formal
A series of talks and actions to end a war and make peace between fighting sides
- Formal
Fair legal steps that follow rules and protect people from unfair loss of freedom or property
A series of steps people follow to make a choice in a group or organization
- Formal
A rule that the government must follow fair legal steps before taking someone's life, freedom, or property
- Specialized
A series of machine and chemical steps used to make goods in a factory
- Specialized
A change or movement in matter and energy that happens in nature and in experiments, like melting
The physical stages a person goes through when a baby comes out of their body
- Specialized
Processes inside a living cell or body that make and use energy to keep it alive
A natural change on Earth that shapes rocks and land, like erosion or volcanoes
- Specialized
A natural change that makes, changes, or destroys Earth's rocks and land
- Specialized
A change that cannot be undone, for example melting or rusting
- Specialized
The bony bump at the back of the elbow that fits into the upper arm when the arm is straight
A natural set of actions that happen inside living things, like breathing or digestion
- Specialized
A bony part on the back of each spine bone where muscles and ligaments attach
- Archaic
A method that makes steel by blowing air through liquid iron to remove carbon and other unwanted parts
- Specialized
A natural function inside a living body, like breathing or digestion
- Specialized
A bony projection on each side of a vertebra where muscles attach
- Specialized
A mental activity that happens without you noticing or controlling it
- Specialized
A simple mental action like seeing, remembering, or paying attention
- Specialized
A way of studying and changing how a company works to make it faster, cheaper, and better
- Archaic
An old way to make photos by bleaching a print and painting it with oil ink for a painted look
- Jargon
The right of a person on trial to have witnesses brought by court order
- Specialized
A process in which the space a gas takes stays the same while pressure or temperature change
- Specialized
A thin triangular part at the front top of the lower jaw where a chewing muscle attaches
- Specialized
A sharp triangular part that sticks out of a bone, for example the lower jaw or the ulna
- Specialized
A method of taking gold and silver from ore using a cyanide solution
- Specialized
A brewing method that removes part of the mashed grain, boils it, and returns it to raise temperature
- Archaic
A way to make photographs on glass plates with a thin light-sensitive layer
- Specialized
A way to make graphite by heating a mix of coke and clay at very high heat
- Specialized
Outer point of the shoulder blade that forms the tip of the shoulder
- Specialized
A process in which no heat moves into or out of a system, for example when a gas expands quickly
- Specialized
Natural changes that turn dead plants or animals into rock-like remains
- Specialized
A method that heats a mixture to separate parts by their boiling points
- Specialized
A mental activity people use to understand, produce, or learn language
- Specialized
Selling the things a company owns to pay its debts before it closes
- Specialized
A random system where what happens next depends only on the present, not on the past
- Specialized
A series of steps used to solve math problems like addition or multiplication
- Specialized
A factory method for making ammonia by reacting nitrogen and hydrogen gases under high pressure and heat with iron
- Specialized
A process that makes ammonia by combining nitrogen and hydrogen gases at high temperature and pressure with an iron catalyst
- Specialized
Thinking that uses what you have learned to reason, plan, or solve problems
- Specialized
A process where a sealed container keeps the same volume while pressure or temperature change
- Specialized
A process where the volume stays the same while pressure or temperature change
A cheese made by mixing different cheeses with other ingredients that help it melt smoothly
A formal notice given after a claim asking people to explain why the court should not enter judgment against them
- Specialized
A bony part inside the skull that sticks down to help form the nose and mouth and hold chewing muscles
- Specialized
A type of talk therapy that explores a person's hidden thoughts and childhood experiences
- Specialized
A chemical action at very high heat to change or separate materials
- Specialized
A process in the mind where one thing stands for another, like a word for an idea
Surface Forms
Etymology
The legal sense of process also comes from Latin pro- 'forward' and cedere 'to go', and it was used for a written order that 'sets a case going'. That's why a legal process is the official paper or steps that make a court action move forward.