procedure

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a particular course of action intended to achieve a result

   the procedure of obtaining a driver's license

2. 2
   noun

   A particular method for performing a task.

   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.

3. 3
   noun

   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. 4
   noun

   The steps taken in an action or other legal proceeding.

   Gracious procedures.

5. 5
   noun

   That which results; issue; product.

   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. 6
   noun

   a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work

7. 7
   noun

   a mode of conducting legal and parliamentary proceedings

8. 8
   noun

   a set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program

Etymology

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