to process
- verb
- /ˈprɑːsɛs/
- Formal
- All those seeking asylum will be processed and dealt with accordingly.
- be processed in court
- process offenders
- process cases
Examples
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Defender will appear Monday morning for processing at 7:00 a.m.
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Tomorrow, he would begin to process the child as abandoned and offer to become a foster parent.
Fiction book (1994) -
Can we process him at your station?
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The order to process her will was on the way.
Fiction book (2001) -
The warrant is being processed right now.
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Then I have no choice but to remand you to the Palace of Justice for processing.
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At the head of the line, prisoners are being processed by a jailer and a couple of cops.
Fiction book (2002) -
He's been processed for deportation already.
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The court will process your claim within the next few weeks.
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She was notified that the judge decided to process her case without delay.
Synonyms
To officially give a document to a court or other authority
To take someone to court to ask for money
To give someone an official court paper in the correct legal way
To start legal action by giving a complaint to a court
To start a court case against someone by suing them
To tell a court that someone did something wrong so it gives a warrant
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 change or movement in matter and energy that happens in nature and in experiments, like melting
- Specialized
A series of machine and chemical steps used to make goods in a factory
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
A cheese made by mixing different cheeses with other ingredients that help it melt smoothly
- Specialized
A bony part on the back of each spine bone where muscles and ligaments attach
A natural set of actions that happen inside living things, like breathing or digestion
- Specialized
A natural change that makes, changes, or destroys Earth's rocks and land
- Specialized
A mental activity that happens without you noticing or controlling it
- 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
- Specialized
A series of steps used to solve math problems like addition or multiplication
- Archaic
A method that makes steel by blowing air through liquid iron to remove carbon and other unwanted parts
- Specialized
A bony projection on each side of a vertebra where muscles attach
- Specialized
Outer point of the shoulder blade that forms the tip of the shoulder
- Jargon
The right of a person on trial to have witnesses brought by court order
- Specialized
A process where a system returns to how it started when the steps are done backward
- Specialized
A factory method for making ammonia by reacting nitrogen and hydrogen gases under high pressure and heat with iron
- Specialized
A natural function inside a living body, like breathing or digestion
- Specialized
A thin part of the skull at the side of the face that helps form the cheekbone
- Specialized
A process that makes ammonia by combining nitrogen and hydrogen gases at high temperature and pressure with an iron catalyst
- Specialized
Selling the things a company owns to pay its debts before it closes
- Specialized
A raised part of the jaw bone that holds the sockets of the teeth
- Specialized
An operation where a surgeon cuts the body to fix or remove a problem
- Specialized
A mental activity people use to understand, produce, or learn language
- Specialized
A simple mental action like seeing, remembering, or paying attention
- Specialized
A slender, pointed part of a bone at the base of the skull that muscles attach to
- Specialized
A sharp triangular part that sticks out of a bone, for example the lower jaw or the ulna
- Specialized
A way of studying and changing how a company works to make it faster, cheaper, and better
- Specialized
A process in which no heat moves into or out of a system, for example when a gas expands quickly
- Specialized
Thinking that uses what you have learned to reason, plan, or solve problems
- Specialized
Natural changes that turn dead plants or animals into rock-like remains
- Specialized
A type of talk therapy that explores a person's hidden thoughts and childhood experiences
- Archaic
A way to make photographs on glass plates with a thin light-sensitive layer
- Specialized
A process in the mind where one thing stands for another, like a word for an idea
- Specialized
A random sequence whose statistical properties stay the same over time
- Specialized
A method of taking gold and silver from ore using a cyanide solution
- Specialized
A random system where what happens next depends only on the present, not on the past
- Archaic
A way of making steel by melting iron and scrap metal in a large open furnace
- Archaic
An old way to make photos by bleaching a print and painting it with oil ink for a painted look
Surface Forms
Etymology
To legally process someone comes from the idea of putting a case 'in motion' from the Latin root pro- 'forward' and cedere 'to go'. So to process a person in court is to begin the official steps or papers against them.