procedure

1. A manner of proceeding; a way of performing or effecting something: standard procedure.
2. A series of steps taken to accomplish an end: a medical procedure; evacuation procedures.
3. A set of established forms or methods for conducting the affairs of an organized body such as a business, club, or government.
4. 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.]

(1) Manual procedures are human tasks.

(2) Machine procedures are lists of programs or operating system functions to be executed. A mainframe uses job control language (JCL). Unix systems use shell scripts. Windows machines use DOS batch files.

(3) In programming, a procedure is another term for a subroutine or function.

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noun

1. A method used in dealing with something: approach, attack, course, line, modus operandi, plan, tack, technique. See means.
2. An action calculated to achieve an end: maneuver, measure (often used in plural), move, step, tactic. See action/inaction.
3. An official or prescribed plan or course of action: line, policy, program. See planned/unplanned.

A series of steps followed in a regular, orderly, definite way, by which a desired result is accomplished.

The methods by which legal rights are enforced; the specific machinery for carrying on a lawsuit, including process, the pleadings, rules of evidence, and rules of civil procedure or criminal procedure.

The form, manner, and order of steps taken in conducting a lawsuit are all regulated by procedural law, which regulates how the law will be administered. Substantive law creates and defines rights that exist under the law.

See: civil procedure.

(DOD) A procedure begins with a specific, documentable event that causes an activity to occur. The activity must produce a product that normally affects another external organization. Frequently, that product will be the event that causes another procedure to occur. It is important to recognize that a procedure determines "what" an organization must do at critical periods but does not direct "how" it will be done.

"Procedure" redirects here. For other uses, see Procedure (disambiguation).

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A procedure is a specified series of actions or operations which have to be executed in the same manner in order to always obtain the same result under the same circumstances (for example, emergency procedures). Less precisely speaking, this word can indicate a sequence of activities, tasks, steps, decisions, calculations and processes, that when undertaken in the sequence laid down produces the described result, product or outcome. A procedure usually induces a change. It is in the scientific method.

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Common misspelling(s) of procedure

• proceedure
• procedger

Dansk (Danish)
n. - fremgangsmåde, forretningsgang

Nederlands (Dutch)
procedure, werkwijze, deel van computerprogramma

Français (French)
n. - (gén) procédure, (Comput) procédure

Deutsch (German)
n. - Prozedur, Verfahren

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - διαδικασία, μέθοδος, (νομ.) δικονομία, (Η/Υ) υπορουτίνα

Italiano (Italian)
procedura, prassi

Português (Portuguese)
n. - procedimento (m)

Русский (Russian)
процедура, метод, процесс

Español (Spanish)
n. - procedimiento, trámites, reglamento

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - procedur, förfarande, tillvägagångssätt, metod, åtgärd

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
程序, 手续, 过程

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 程式, 手續, 過程

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 순서, 절차, 조건

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 進行, 手順, 処置, 手続き, 行為

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) إجراء‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮הליך, נוהל, פרוצדורה‬

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