procedure

English

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

procedure (countable and uncountable; plural procedures)

1. A particular method for performing a task.
2. A series of small tasks or steps taken to accomplish an end.
3. (uncountable) 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. The steps taken in an action or other legal proceeding.

   Gracious procedures. —I. Taylor.

5. (obsolete) That which results; issue; product.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Bacon to this entry?)

6. (computing) A subroutine or function coded to perform a specific task.

Synonyms

• (method): algorithm, method, process, routine
• (set of established forms or methods of an organized body): protocol
• (computing): function, routine, sub, subroutine, method (although some of these have slightly differing meanings in some programming languages)

Related terms

• administrative procedure
• proceed
• process
• procession

Translations

method

• Armenian: ընթացակարգ (hy) (əntʿacʿakarg)
• Catalan: procediment (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 做法 (cmn) (zuò fǎ)

• Czech: postup (cs) m
• Dutch: procedure (nl) f
• Finnish: toimintatapa (fi), menetelmä (fi), menettely (fi)
• French: procédé (fr) m
• German: Prozedur (de) f, Prozedere (de) n
• Greek: διαδικασία (el) (diadikasía) f

• Hungarian: eljárás (hu)
• Italian: procedura (it) f
• Japanese: 手段 (ja) (しゅだん, shudan), やり方 (ja) (やりかた, yarikata)
• Maori: pēheatanga (mi), pēwheatanga (mi)
• Portuguese: procedimento (pt) m
• Romanian: procedură (ro) f, procedeu (ro) n
• Spanish: procedimiento (es) m
• Swahili: mtindo (sw)
• Turkish: metod (tr), yöntem (tr)

series of small tasks

• Armenian: ընթացակարգ (hy) (əntʿacʿakarg)
• Catalan: procediment (ca) m
• Dutch: procedure (nl) f
• French: procédure (fr) f
• German: Vorgehen (de) n, Vorgehensweise (de) f

• Italian: procedura (it) f
• Japanese: 手順 (ja) (tejun), 手続き (ja) (tetsuzuki), 行程 (ja) (kōtē)
• Portuguese: procedimento (pt) m
• Swahili: mtindo (sw)

set of established forms or methods of an organized body

• Arabic: اجراء (ar) (ijrā’) m
• Armenian: ընթացակարգ (hy) (əntʿacʿakarg)
• Catalan: procediment (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 程序 (cmn) (chéngxù)

• Dutch: procedure (nl) f
• Estonian: kord (et)
• Finnish: menettelytavat (fi) pl
• French: procédure (fr) f
• German: Prozedur (de) f
• Hungarian: eljárás (hu)

• Italian: procedura (it) f, procedimento (it) m
• Japanese: 手順 (ja) (てじゅん, tejun), やり方 (ja) (やりかた, yarikata), 流儀 (ja) (りゅうぎ, ryūgi)
• Korean: 절차 (ko) (jeolcha)
• Portuguese: procedimento (pt) m
• Romanian: procedură (ro) f
• Russian: процедура (ru) (protsedúra) f
• Spanish: procedimiento (es) m
• Swahili: mtindo (sw)
• Swedish: procedur (sv) c
• Turkish: işlem (tr), prosedür (tr)

steps taken in a legal proceeding

• Czech: úkony (cs) pl
• Finnish: menettely (fi), oikeudenkäyntimenettely (fi), työjärjestys (fi)

• Spanish: procedimiento (es) m
• Swahili: mtindo (sw)

computing: subroutine or function coded to perform a specific task

• Catalan: procediment (ca) m
• Czech: procedura (cs) f
• Dutch: procedure (nl) f
• Finnish: aliohjelma (fi), proseduuri (fi)
• French: fonction (fr) f
• German: Unterprogramm (de) n
• Hungarian: eljárás (hu), procedúra (hu)

• Japanese: 手順 (ja) (tejyun), 行程 (ja) (kōtē), プロシージャ (ja) (purosīja), 手続き (ja) (てつづき, tetsuzuki)
• Portuguese: procedimento (pt) m
• Romanian: funcțiune (ro) f, funcție (ro) f, subrutină (ro) f
• Russian: процедура (ru) (procedura) f, функция (ru) (funkcija) f, подпрограмма (ru) (podprogramma) f
• Swahili: mtindo (sw)
• Turkish: yordam (tr)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.

Translations to be checked

• German: Prozedur (de) f, Vorgehen (de) n
• Ido: proceduro (io)

External links

• procedure in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• procedure in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Anagrams

• reproduce

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA: /proːsəˈdyːrə/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

procedure f (plural procedures)

1. procedure

Anagrams

• produceer, producere

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Italian

Noun

procedure f

1. Plural form of procedura

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Old French

Noun

procedure f (oblique plural procedures, nominative singular procedure, nominative plural procedures)

1. procedure (particular method for performing a task)

Related terms

• procés, proces
• proceder

Descendants

• English: procedure (borrowed)
• French: procédure