procedure

noun

prə-ˈsē-jər How to pronounce procedure (audio)
Definition of procedurenext
1
as in process
a usually fixed or ordered series of actions or events leading to a result followed the procedure for replacing the broken part exactly as the owner's manual instructed

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2
as in policy
a way of acting or proceeding followed standard procedure for dealing with a consumer complaint

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Recent Examples of procedure These procedures stimulate collagen and improve your texture and firmness while smoothing fine lines. — Maggie Ryan, Flow Space, 1 Sep. 2026 While previous investigators had gone to great lengths to look into the victim’s dentures, cold case procedure requires the investigator to start the case fresh. — Taylor Romine, CNN Money, 31 Aug. 2026 Egg freezing is a fertility-preservation procedure in which eggs are retrieved from the ovaries, frozen and stored for possible future use. — Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA Today, 31 Aug. 2026 Donna says many of the procedures have lasted more than 12 hours. — Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 31 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for procedure
Recent Examples of Synonyms for procedure
  1. process
  2. policy
  3. method
  4. methodology
  5. program
  6. strategy
  7. approach
  8. course
Noun
  • What the article does not show is that this process is what high-performing firms use, or that firms which use it then outperform.
    — Steve Denning, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2026
  • To comply, states would have to retool their processes for printing and mailing ballots, a potentially expensive process that might be difficult to achieve quickly.
    — Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 30 Aug. 2026
Definition of process
Noun
  • But the forces prodding Shin to boost rates are increasingly affecting Fed policy decisions.
    — William Pesek, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2026
  • But previous policies to give parents more money, both in Singapore and elsewhere in Asia, haven’t been able to reverse falling birth rates.
    — Angelica Ang, Fortune, 30 Aug. 2026
Definition of policy
Noun
  • And other insects could offer promising methods of search and rescue in the future.
    — Devika Rao, TheWeek, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Direct internal heating Stanford researchers overcame this challenge by developing an internal heating method.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of method
Noun
  • Semafor’s methodology and reproducible analysis code can be found in a public GitHub repository here.
    — Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 27 Aug. 2026
  • The full list and an in-depth explanation of the ranking’s methodology can be found on Time magazine’s website.
    — Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of methodology
Noun
  • His older brother, Ethan, is a freshman guard at Wabash Valley, a high-profile junior college basketball program.
    — Patrick Z. McGavin, Chicago Tribune, 29 Aug. 2026
  • Her replacement, Christophe Leribault, critics say, is a somewhat safer pick who will likely shift the museum away from the robust contemporary art program under Des Cars, and toward a more French and Western-centric vision.
    — Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of program
Noun
  • DeepMind's Demis Hassabis has similarly described a future that plays to that strategy.
    — MacKenzie Sigalos,Drew Troast, CNBC, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Joseph Marchese has joined creator network Bent Pixels as executive VP of creator strategy and business as the firm revs up its portfolio of support services offered to attention-economy clients.
    — William Earl, Variety, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of strategy
Noun
  • From there, researchers also used synchrotron radiation and other microscopy approaches to analyze the healing tissues on a cellular level.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Crews fighting the fire took an innovative approach Monday, using ground vehicles to apply a fire retardant typically dropped from airplanes, according to a post on the forest service’s Facebook page.
    — Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of approach
Noun
  • Over the course of Exile, one of Loktev’s subjects is poisoned; another receives a five-year prison sentence in absentia.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2026
  • The National Golf Foundation said in May that the number of female on-course golfers rose 45 percent form 2020 to 2025.
    — Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of course

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