procedurenoun
uk/prəˈsiː.dʒər/us/prəˈsiː.dʒɚ/procedure noun (WAY TO DO)
B2 [ C or U ] a set of actions that is the official or accepted way of doing something:
The company has new procedures for dealing with complaints.
You must follow correct procedure at all times.
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- a complex procedure
- a painless medical procedure
- Don't worry - I'll go through the procedure with you step by step.
- There are established procedures for dealing with emergencies.
- Investigators urged that safety procedures at the site should be improved.
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Ways of achieving things
- a means to an end idiom
- actively
- another
- avenue
- basis
- channel
- fair
- jump
- mean
- medium
- mixed media
- modality
- modus operandi
- one way or another idiom
- one-handed
- resort
- vein
- what's the drill for sth? idiom
- whereby
- workings
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procedure noun (MEDICAL TREATMENT)
[ C ] a medical operation:
It's a routine/standard surgical procedure.
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Medical treatment: surgery
- ablate
- adrenalectomy
- anaesthesiology
- anastomose
- anesthesiology
- circumcise
- collagen
- eviscerate
- facelift
- frontal lobotomy
- implant
- keyhole surgery
- laminectomy
- laparoscopic
- laparoscopy
- laparotomy
- ligation
- nose job
- pump out sth
- transplant
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procedure noun (COMPUTING)
[ C ] specialized computing a set of instructions in a computer program that does a particular task
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Computer programming & software
- abandonware
- ad-blocker
- ad-blocking
- adware
- alpha
- analytics
- backup software
- CD-RW
- compile
- killer app
- lisp
- LMS
- low-level language
- macro
- mashup
- patch
- shortcut
- systems analyst
- virtual memory
- worm
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procedural
adjective uk/prəˈsiː.dʒər.əl/us/prəˈsiː.dʒɚ.əl/
procedural errors/matters