procedure

procedure

See also: procédure

English

Etymology

From French procédure, from Old French, from Latin procedere (“to go forward, proceed”); see proceed.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pɹəˈsiːd͡ʒə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /pɹəˈsid͡ʒɚ/

• Audio (US)

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• Hyphenation: pro‧ced‧ure

Noun

procedure (countable and uncountable, plural procedures)

1. 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.

2. A series of small tasks or steps taken to accomplish an end.
3. (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.

4. The steps taken in an action or other legal proceeding.
   • 1832, [Isaac Taylor], Saturday Evening. […], London: Holdsworth and Ball, OCLC 2619891:

     Gracious procedures.

5. (obsolete) That which results; issue; product.
   • 1631, Francis [Bacon], “(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], OCLC 1044372886:

     There is not any known Substance, but Earth, and the Procedure of Earth (as Tile, Stone, &c.) that yeeldeth any Moss or Herby Substance.

6. (computing) A subroutine or function coded to perform a specific task, but does not return a value.
7. (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

• proceed
• process
• procession

Translations

method for performing a task

Armenian: ընթացակարգ (hy) (əntʿacʿakarg) Belarusian: працэду́ра f (pracedúra) Bulgarian: процеду́ра (bg) f (procedúra) Catalan: procediment (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 做法 (zh) (zuòfǎ), 方法 (zh) (fāngfǎ) Czech: postup (cs) m Dutch: procedure (nl) f Finnish: toimintatapa (fi), menetelmä (fi), menettely (fi), menettelytapa (fi), prosessi (fi), työtapa, metodi (fi) French: procédé (fr) m, procédure (fr) f Galician: procedemento (gl) m German: Verfahren (de) n, Verfahrensweise f, [medizinischer] Eingriff (de) m Greek: διαδικασία (el) f (diadikasía) Hungarian: eljárás (hu) Italian: procedura (it) f, iter (it) m, procedimento (it) m, metodo (it) m Japanese: 手段 (ja) (しゅだん, shudan), やり方 (ja) (やりかた, yarikata), 方法 (ja) (ほうほう, hōhō) Korean: 절차 (ko) (jeolcha), 수단 (ko) (sudan), 방법 (ko) (bangbeop) Malay: tatacara (ms), prosedur Maori: pēheatanga, pēwheatanga, hātepe Norwegian: Bokmål: fremgangsmåte (no) m, prosedyre m Nynorsk: prosedyre m Persian: روال‎ (fa) (ravâl) Polish: procedura (pl) f Portuguese: procedimento (pt) m Romanian: procedură (ro) f, procedeu (ro) n Russian: процеду́ра (ru) f (procedúra), ме́тод (ru) m (métod), мето́дика (ru) f (metódika) Spanish: procedimiento (es) m Swedish: procedur (sv) c, förfarande (sv) n Thai: วิธี (th) (wí-tii), กรรมวิธี (th) Tocharian B: upacār Turkish: metod (tr), yöntem (tr) Ukrainian: процеду́ра (uk) f (procedúra) Vietnamese: phương pháp (vi)

series of small tasks to accomplish an end

Armenian: ընթացակարգ (hy) (əntʿacʿakarg) Bulgarian: процеду́ра (bg) f (procedúra) Catalan: procediment (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 程序 (zh) (chéngxù) Dutch: procedure (nl) f Finnish: menettely (fi), menettelytavat French: procédure (fr) f German: Prozess (de) m, Vorgehen (de) n, Vorgehensweise (de) f Italian: procedura (it) f Japanese: 手順 (ja) (tejun), 手続き (ja) (tetsuzuki), 行程 (ja) (kōtei), 段取り (dandori) Kikuyu: mũtaratara class 3 Maori: hātepe Persian: روند‎ (fa) (ravand) Polish: procedura (pl) f Portuguese: procedimento (pt) m Russian: процеду́ра (ru) f (procedúra), проце́сс (ru) m (procéss) Spanish: procedimiento (es) m

set of established forms or methods of an organized body

Arabic: اِجْرَاء‎ m (ijrāʾ) Armenian: ընթացակարգ (hy) (əntʿacʿakarg) Bulgarian: процеду́ра (bg) f (procedúra), на́чин на ра́бота m (náčin na rábota) Catalan: procediment (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 程序 (zh) (chéngxù) Dutch: procedure (nl) f Estonian: kord (et) Finnish: toimintamalli, menettelytavat (fi) pl French: procédure (fr) f German: Prozedur (de) f Hungarian: eljárás (hu) Italian: procedura (it) f, procedimento (it) m Japanese: 手順 (ja) (てじゅん, tejun), やり方 (ja) (やりかた, yarikata), 流儀 (ja) (りゅうぎ, ryūgi), 手続き (ja) (tetsuzuki) Korean: 절차 (ko) (jeolcha) Persian: روال‎ (fa) (revâl) Portuguese: procedimento (pt) m Romanian: procedură (ro) f Russian: процеду́ра (ru) f (procedúra), проце́сс (ru) m (procéss) Spanish: procedimiento (es) m Swedish: procedur (sv) c Turkish: işlem (tr), prosedür (tr)

steps taken in a legal proceeding

Bulgarian: процеду́ра (bg) f (procedúra) Czech: úkony (cs) pl Finnish: menettely (fi), oikeudenkäyntimenettely, työjärjestys Polish: procedura (pl) f Russian: процеду́ра (ru) f (procedúra), проце́сс (ru) m (procéss) Spanish: procedimiento (es) m, trámite (es) m Thai: วิธีพิจารณา (wí-tii-pí-jaa-rá-naa)

computing: subroutine or function coded to perform a specific task

Bulgarian: процеду́ра (bg) f (procedúra) Catalan: procediment (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 子程序 (zh) (zǐchéngxù) Czech: procedura (cs) f Dutch: procedure (nl) f Esperanto: proceduro (eo) Finnish: aliohjelma (fi), proseduuri (fi) French: fonction (fr) f German: Unterprogramm n Greek: υποπρόγραμμα (el) n (ypoprógramma), διαδικασία (el) f (diadikasía) Hungarian: eljárás (hu), procedúra Japanese: 手順 (ja) (tejyun), 行程 (ja) (kōtē), プロシージャ (ja) (purosīja), 手続き (ja) (てつづき, tetsuzuki) Persian: رویه‎ (fa) (ravieh) Polish: procedura (pl) f Portuguese: procedimento (pt) m Romanian: funcțiune (ro) f, funcție (ro) f, subrutină (ro) f Russian: процеду́ра (ru) f (procedúra), фу́нкция (ru) f (fúnkcija), подпрогра́мма (ru) f (podprográmma) Turkish: yordam (tr) Vietnamese: thủ tục (vi)

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Translations to be checked

German: (please verify) Prozedur (de) f, (please verify) Vorgehen (de) n Ido: (please verify) proceduro (io)

Further reading

• procedure in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• procedure in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911

Anagrams

• reproduce

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French procedure.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌproːsəˈdyːrə/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: pro‧ce‧du‧re
• Rhymes: -yːrə

Noun

procedure f (plural procedures)

1. procedure

Derived terms

• afzettingsprocedure

Descendants

• → Indonesian: prosedur

Anagrams

• produceer, producere

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Italian

Noun

procedure f

1. plural of procedura

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Old French

Noun

procedure f (oblique plural procedures, nominative singular procedure, nominative plural procedures)

1. procedure (particular method for performing a task)

Related terms

• procés, proces
• proceder

Descendants

• → English: procedure
• French: procédure