procedure
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
procedure/prəˈsiːʤə(r)/
▶noun
- 1 an established or official way of doing something.
■ a series of actions conducted in a certain order or manner.
- 2 Computing a subroutine.
– derivatives
procedural adjective,
procedurally adverb.
procedural adjective,
procedurally adverb.
'procedure' also found in these Oxford entries:
acquisition accounting
- artefact
- artificial insemination
- assay
- atraumatic
- backup
- ballot
- blot
- bureaucracy
- cart
- casual
- closure
- cloze test
- cook-chill
- course
- devise
- dilatation and curettage
- draft
- drill
- dry run
- election
- elimination diet
- enema
- experiment
- facelift
- form
- formula
- goalpost
- guillotine
- Heimlich procedure
- immunoassay
- inquisitorial
- invalidate
- invoke
- iterate
- job
- judicial review
- jump
- laparoscopy
- law
- ligation
- lipectomy
- livery
- master of ceremonies
- mesotherapy
- method
- obligee
- obligor
- order
- paperchase
