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procedure

Definition for procedure

noun as in process, system for accomplishing something

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Example Sentences

Binam is now at the center of a congressional inquiry into allegations of a pattern of nonconsensual gynecological procedures, including hysterectomies, performed on detainees at Irwin in recent years.

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These may work to address the problematic search warrant procedures that took place in Taylor’s case.

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The equations of QED made respectable predictions, they found, if patched with the inscrutable procedure of renormalization.

How to vote earlyEvery state handles its own elections, so early voting rules vary from state to state, just like voter registration procedures.

Administration officials have sought to keep politics out of the vaccine, arguing they are following all procedures.

Normal procedure is that any member country can request that a document be circulated, and the UN does it pro-forma.

“This [investigation] is part of routine procedure following the death of any firefighter,” he told The Daily Beast.

He takes great pleasure in demonstrating the monitoring procedure.

Anti-abortion organizations tend to tend to propagate the idea that the procedure is dangerous and unproven.

There is a procedure called “compassionate release” allowing terminally ill men to die at home.

Thereupon began a procedure identical to that which had characterized the outset of every successful case of the Chief Inspector.

The motives which led to this undertaking, and the reasons for my mode of procedure, may be stated in a few words.

The whole procedure—taking the cosmic view—was almost pointless, but it would make the botanist happy, at least.

But only a cloistered ecclesiastic can be held responsible for such military procedure.

But statutes which merely alter the procedure, if they are in themselves good statutes, ought to be retrospective.

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When To Use

What are other ways to say procedure?

The noun procedure usually implies a formal or set order of doing a thing, a method of conducting affairs: parliamentary procedure. A process is a series of progressive and interdependent steps by which an end is attained: a chemical process. Proceeding (usually plural) applies to what goes on or takes place on a given occasion or to the records of the occasion: Proceedings of the Royal Academy of Sciences.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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