procedure

B2 Topic:General Vocabulary

US /pɹəˈsid͡ʒɚ/ UK /pɹəˈsiːd͡ʒə/ See IPA manual

Freq #3562

Meanings

1

noun
A fixed series of steps for doing something correctly.

Follow the safety procedure before starting the machine.
2

noun
A medical operation or treatment.

The surgical procedure took less than an hour.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 noun · a fixed series of steps for... process method protocol

2 noun · a medical operation or... operation

More function routine subsubroutine

Word family

Forms procedures

Derived forms cryoproceduremicroproceduremidprocedureperiprocedurepostprocedurepreprocedureproceduralprocess-serverprocess-servingsubprocedure

Related forms proceed process procession

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Phrases (1)

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bureaucratic procedure
an official process involving administrative rules or paperwork, often unnecessarily slow

Adjective + noun

Etymology

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

procédure French procedo Latin

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Topics

General Vocabulary

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# procedure

**Type:** Word
**Level:** B2
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** /pɹəˈsid͡ʒɚ/
**IPA (UK):** /pɹəˈsiːd͡ʒə/
**Frequency rank:** 3562

## Meanings
1. A fixed series of steps for doing something correctly.
2. A medical operation or treatment.

## Examples
- Follow the safety procedure before starting the machine.
- The surgical procedure took less than an hour.

## Synonyms
- function
- method
- operation
- routine
- sub
- subroutine

## Derived Forms
- cryoprocedure
- microprocedure
- midprocedure
- periprocedure
- postprocedure
- preprocedure
- procedural
- process-server
- process-serving
- subprocedure

## Related Forms
- proceed
- process
- procession

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: procédure
- Root: procedo

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

## AI Etymology
Procedure comes from French procédure, from Old French, from Latin procedere (“to go forward, proceed”); see proceed. The historical chain includes procédure (French), procedo (Latin). In present-day English it covers a fixed series of steps for doing something correctly and a medical operation or treatment. The wider family includes derived forms such as cryoprocedure, microprocedure, midprocedure, periprocedure, postprocedure and related forms such as proceed, process, procession.

## Topics
- General Vocabulary

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