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/prəsˈidʒər/ /proʊsˈidʒər/ Listen

Procedure

noun

A particular course of action intended to achieve a result. Synonym: process. "It was a process of trial and error"

A process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work. Synonym: operation. "Certain machine tool operations"

A set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program. Synonyms: function, routine, subprogram, subroutine.

A mode of conducting legal and parliamentary proceedings.

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... author desires to express his thanks to his friend Mr. Bernard E. Bishop for the assistance rendered to him in certain photographic experiments, and to those officers of the Central Criminal Court who very kindly furnished him with details of the procedure in criminal trials. ...

— The Red Thumb Mark • R. Austin Freeman

... when the old school of financiers, and some speculative writers, maintained that the national debt was one of the causes of national prosperity; as when the excellence of the Church, of the Houses of Lords and Commons, of the procedure of the law courts, etc., were inferred from the mere fact that the country had prospered under them. In such cases as these, if it can be rendered probable by other evidence that the supposed causes have some tendency to produce ...

— A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive • John Stuart Mill

... to the dispute says that the question involved concerns the interpretation of a treaty and accordingly submits the question to the Permanent Court of International Justice in accordance with the procedure under the Statute of that Court. The other party to the dispute says that the dispute does not in any way concern the interpretation of the treaty and submits the matter to the Council of the League under Article ...

— The Geneva Protocol • David Hunter Miller

... in opposing them. Whoever must go outside herself and become angry to resist them, exposes her weakness. A fine irony, a piquant raillery, a humiliating coolness, these are what discourage them. Never a quarrel with them, consequently no reconciliation. What advantages does not this mode of procedure take ...

— Life, Letters, and Epicurean Philosophy of Ninon de L'Enclos, - the Celebrated Beauty of the Seventeenth Century • Robinson [and] Overton, ed. and translation.

... found time to calmly regard the drama of life from the front. He was always at the stage-door, sending in his card, and requesting admittance behind the scenes. What was on the surface only interested him in so far as it indicated what was beneath, and in all mental matters his normal procedure was that of the disguised detective. Stupid people disliked him. Clever people distrusted him while they admired him. The mediocre suggested that he was liable to go off his head, and the profound predicted for ...

— The Collaborators - 1896 • Robert S. Hichens

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