procedure
procedure Lexical Profile
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• noun
An established, official, or standard sequence of actions or steps followed in a regular, definite order to accomplish a task or conduct business.
"All employees must follow the standard safety procedure when operating heavy machinery in the warehouse."
A surgical operation or other clinical intervention performed on a patient to diagnose, treat, or manage a medical condition.
"The patient recovered quickly after undergoing a minor outpatient procedure at the clinic."
In computer programming, a self-contained section of code or subroutine that performs a specific task within a larger program.
"The developer wrote a stored procedure to automate the nightly database backup."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed in the late 16th century from Middle French procédure, derived from procéder ('to proceed'), which comes from Latin procedere ('to go forward, advance'), from pro- ('forward') and cedere ('to go, yield').