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–noun

1.	an act or a manner of proceeding in any action or process; conduct.

2.	a particular course or mode of action.

3.	any given mode of conducting legal, parliamentary, or other business, esp. litigation and judicial proceedings.

Computers.

a.	the sequence of actions or instructions to be followed in solving a problem or accomplishing a task.

b.	Also called subprogram. a group of statements that may be used at one or more points in a computer program.

[Origin: 1605–15; < F procédure. See proceed, -ure

]

—Synonyms 1. management. 2. operation, maneuver, transaction. See process.

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pro·ce·dure Audio Help (prə-sē'jər) Pronunciation Key
n.

A manner of proceeding; a way of performing or effecting something: standard procedure.
A series of steps taken to accomplish an end: a medical procedure; evacuation procedures.
A set of established forms or methods for conducting the affairs of an organized body such as a business, club, or government.
Computer Science A set of instructions that performs a specific task; a subroutine or function.

[French procédure, from Old French, from proceder, to proceed; see proceed.]

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procedure

1611, "fact or manner of proceeding," from Fr. procédure "manner of proceeding" (1197), from O.Fr. proceder (see proceed). Meaning "method of conducting business in Parliament" is from 1839. First appearance of procedural is 1889.

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procedure
noun
1.	a particular course of action intended to achieve a result; "the procedure of obtaining a driver's license"; "it was a process of trial and error"
2.	a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work; "the operations in building a house"; "certain machine tool operations" [syn: operation]
3.	a set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program [syn: routine]
4.	a mode of conducting legal and parliamentary proceedings

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procedure [prəˈsiːdʒə] noun

the order or method of doing something
Example: They followed the usual procedure(s).

Arabic:	إجْراء، أصول، طريقَه
Chinese (Simplified):	过程，步骤，程序
Chinese (Traditional):	過程，步驟，程序
Czech:	procedura
Danish:	procedure; metode
Dutch:	procedure
Estonian:	menetlus
Finnish:	menettelytapa
French:	procédure
German:	das Verfahren
Greek:	διαδικασία
Hungarian:	eljárás(mód)
Icelandic:	aðferð
Indonesian:	prosedur
Italian:	procedura, prassi

Japanese:	手順
Korean:	절차, 수단
Latvian:	procedūra; process; norise
Lithuanian:	procedūra, darbo tvarka, *būdas
Norwegian:	framgangsmåte; prosedyre
Polish:	sposób postępowania, procedura
Portuguese (Brazil):	procedimento
Portuguese (Portugal):	procedimento
Romanian:	procedură
Russian:	процедура
Slovak:	procedúra
Slovenian:	postopek
Spanish:	procedimiento
Swedish:	procedur
Turkish:	işlem