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procedure (iou)



procedure noun. L16.
[Old & mod. French procedure, from proceder PROCEED verb: see -URE.]
I.
The fact or manner of proceeding; a system of proceeding; conduct, behaviour; spec. (a) Law the formal steps to be taken in a legal action; the mode of conducting judicial proceedings; (b) Politics the mode of conducting business in Parliament. L16.
Times The collective dispute procedure had been agreed nationally. B. Chatwin The procedure was to go to your usual physician.
A particular mode or course of action, a proceeding. M19.
P. Quillin Most surgical procedures and drugs..carry with them..hazards and side-effects. D. Leavitt Late in the pregnancy, the procedure was painful and complicated.
b. Computing. A set of instructions for performing a specific task which may be invoked in the course of a program; a subroutine. M20.
II. Proceeds, produce. Only in E17.
The fact of proceeding from a source; origination. rare. M17.
Continuance or progress of something. M17-E18.