procedure

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /pɹəˈsiːd͡ʒə/
(US) IPA^(key): /pɹəˈsid͡ʒɚ/
Audio (US): (file)
Rhymes: -iːʒə(ɹ)
Hyphenation: pro‧ced‧ure

Noun

procedure (countable and uncountable, plural procedures)

A particular method for performing a task.
- 2014 June 14, “It's a gas”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8891:
  One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.
A series of small tasks or steps taken to accomplish an end.
(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.
The steps taken in an action or other legal proceeding.
- 1832, [Isaac Taylor], Saturday Evening. […], London: Holdsworth and Ball, →OCLC:
  Gracious procedures.
(obsolete) That which results; issue; product.
- 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
  There is not any known Substance, but Earth, and the Procedure of Earth (as Tile, Stone, &c.) that yeeldeth any Moss or Herby Substance.
(computing) A subroutine or function coded to perform a specific task, but does not return a value.
(medicine) A surgical operation.

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)
(medicine): operation

Hyponyms

administrative procedure
(computing): stored procedure

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Translations

method for performing a task

Afrikaans: prosedure
Albanian: procedurë (sq) f
Armenian: ընթացակարգ (hy) (əntʻacʻakarg)
Belarusian: працэду́ра f (pracedúra)
Bulgarian: процеду́ра (bg) f (procedúra)
Catalan: procediment (ca) m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 做法 (zou⁶ faat³), 方法 (fong¹ faat³)

Mandarin: 做法 (zh) (zuòfǎ), 方法 (zh) (fāngfǎ)
Czech: postup (cs) m
Danish: procedure (da) c
Dutch: procedure (nl) f
Esperanto: procedo
Finnish: toimintatapa (fi), menetelmä (fi), menettely (fi), menettelytapa (fi), prosessi (fi), työtapa, metodi (fi)
French: procédé (fr) m, procédure (fr) f
Galician: procedemento (gl) m
Georgian: პროცედურა (ṗrocedura), მეთოდი (ka) (metodi)
German: Verfahren (de) n, Verfahrensweise f, [medizinischer] Eingriff (de) m
Greek: διαδικασία (el) f (diadikasía)
Hindi: प्रक्रिया (hi) f (prakriyā), विधि (hi) f (vidhi), पद्धति (hi) f (paddhati)
Hungarian: eljárás (hu)
Italian: procedura (it) f, iter (it) m, procedimento (it) m, metodo (it) m
Japanese: 手段 (ja) (しゅだん, shudan), やり方 (ja) (やりかた, yarikata), 方法 (ja) (ほうほう, hōhō)
Korean: 절차(節次) (ko) (jeolcha), 수단(手段) (ko) (sudan), 방법(方法) (ko) (bangbeop)
Macedonian: процеду́ра f (procedúra)
Malay: tatacara (ms), prosedur
Maori: pēheatanga, pēwheatanga, hātepe
Norwegian:
Bokmål: fremgangsmåte (no) m, prosedyre m

Nynorsk: prosedyre m
Persian:
Iranian Persian: رَوِیِه (raviye), رَوال (ravâl)
Polish: procedura (pl) f
Portuguese: procedimento (pt) m
Romanian: procedură (ro) f, procedeu (ro) n
Russian: процеду́ра (ru) f (procedúra), ме́тод (ru) m (métod), мето́дика (ru) f (metódika)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: процеду́ра f

Roman: procedúra (sh) f
Slovak: postup m
Slovene: postopek m, procedura f
Spanish: procedimiento (es) m
Swedish: procedur (sv) c, förfarande (sv) n
Thai: วิธี (th) (wí-tii), กรรมวิธี (th) (gam-má-wí-tii)
Tocharian B: upacār
Turkish: işlem (tr), prosedür (tr)
Ukrainian: процеду́ра (uk) f (procedúra), проце́с (uk) m (procés)
Urdu: طَرِیقَہ m (tarīqa)
Vietnamese: phương pháp (vi)

series of small tasks to accomplish an end

Armenian: ընթացակարգ (hy) (əntʻacʻakarg)
Belarusian: працэду́ра f (pracedúra), працэ́с m (pracés)
Bulgarian: процеду́ра (bg) f (procedúra), проце́с (bg) m (procés)
Catalan: procediment (ca) m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 程序 (cing⁴ zeoi⁶)

Mandarin: 程序 (zh) (chéngxù)
Dutch: procedure (nl) f
Finnish: menettely (fi), menettelytavat
French: procédure (fr) f
German: Prozess (de) m, Vorgehen (de) n, Vorgehensweise (de) f
Hebrew: נוהל / נֹהַל m (nóhal)
Hindi: विधि (hi) f (vidhi), प्रक्रिया (hi) f (prakriyā)
Italian: procedura (it) f
Japanese: 手順 (ja) (てじゅん, tejun), 手続き (ja) (てつづき, tetsuzuki), 行程 (ja) (こうてい, kōtei), 段取り (ja) (だんどり, dandori)
Kikuyu: mũtaratara class 3
Korean: 절차(節次) (ko) (jeolcha)
Maori: hātepe
Persian:
Iranian Persian: رَوَنْد (ravand)
Polish: procedura (pl) f
Portuguese: procedimento (pt) m
Russian: процеду́ра (ru) f (procedúra), проце́сс (ru) m (procéss)
Spanish: procedimiento (es) m
Ukrainian: процеду́ра (uk) f (procedúra), проце́с (uk) m (procés)

set of established forms or methods of an organized body

Arabic: اِجْرَاء m (ijrāʔ)
Armenian: ընթացակարգ (hy) (əntʻacʻakarg)
Bulgarian: процеду́ра (bg) f (procedúra), на́чин на ра́бота m (náčin na rábota)
Catalan: procediment (ca) m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 程序 (cing⁴ zeoi⁶)

Mandarin: 程序 (zh) (chéngxù)
Dutch: procedure (nl) f
Estonian: kord (et)
Finnish: toimintamalli, menettelytavat (fi) pl
French: procédure (fr) f
German: Prozedur (de) f
Hindi: कार्यपद्धति (hi) f (kāryapaddhati), कार्यप्रणाली f (kāryapraṇālī)
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), 手続き (ja) (てつづき, tetsuzuki)
Korean: 절차(節次) (ko) (jeolcha)
Persian:
Iranian Persian: رَوِیِه (raviye), رَوال (ravâl)
Portuguese: procedimento (pt) m
Romanian: procedură (ro) f
Russian: процеду́ра (ru) f (procedúra), проце́сс (ru) m (procéss)
Spanish: procedimiento (es) m
Swedish: procedur (sv) c
Turkish: işlem (tr), prosedür (tr)

steps taken in a legal proceeding

Bulgarian: процеду́ра (bg) f (procedúra)
Czech: úkony (cs) pl
Finnish: menettely (fi), oikeudenkäyntimenettely, työjärjestys
Polish: procedura (pl) f
Russian: процеду́ра (ru) f (procedúra), проце́сс (ru) m (procéss)
Spanish: procedimiento (es) m, trámite (es) m
Thai: วิธีพิจารณา (wí-tii-pí-jaa-rá-naa)

computing: subroutine or function coded to perform a specific task

Bulgarian: процеду́ра (bg) f (procedúra)
Catalan: procediment (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 過程 / 过程 (zh) (guòchéng) (Chiefly Mainland China), 子程序 (zh) (zǐchéngxù)
Czech: procedura (cs) f
Dutch: procedure (nl) f
Esperanto: proceduro (eo)
Finnish: aliohjelma (fi), proseduuri (fi)
French: fonction (fr) f
German: Unterprogramm n
Greek: υποπρόγραμμα (el) n (ypoprógramma), διαδικασία (el) f (diadikasía)
Hungarian: eljárás (hu), procedúra (hu)
Japanese: 手順 (ja) (てじゅん, tejun), 行程 (ja) (こうてい, kōtei), プロシージャ (ja) (purosīja), 手続き (ja) (てつづき, tetsuzuki)
Persian:
Iranian Persian: رَوِیِه (raviye)
Polish: procedura (pl) f
Portuguese: procedimento (pt) m
Romanian: funcțiune (ro) f, funcție (ro) f, subrutină (ro) f
Russian: процеду́ра (ru) f (procedúra), фу́нкция (ru) f (fúnkcija), подпрогра́мма (ru) f (podprográmma)
Turkish: yordam (tr)
Vietnamese: thủ tục (vi)

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German: ^{(please verify)} Prozedur (de) f, ^{(please verify)} Vorgehen (de) n
Ido: ^{(please verify)} proceduro (io)

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