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/prəsˈidʒər/ /proʊsˈidʒər/ Listen

noun

Procedure n.

The act or manner of proceeding or moving forward; progress; process; operation; conduct. "The true procedure of conscience."

A step taken; an act performed; a proceeding; the steps taken in an action or other legal proceeding. "Gracious procedures."

That which results; issue; product. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Procedure'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Procedure" Quotes from Famous Books

... 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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