Noun: procedure
| Singular | procedure |
| Plural | procedures |
Sample Sentences
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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. [2014 June 14, “It's a gas”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8891:]
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Ensure that you follow procedure when accessing customers' personal information.
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Gracious procedures. [1832, [Isaac Taylor], Saturday Evening. […], London: Holdsworth and Ball, →OCLC:]
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There is not any known Substance, but Earth, and the Procedure of Earth (as Tile, Stone, &c.) that yeeldeth any Moss or Herby Substance. [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:]
Nouns inflected like procedure
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From French procédure, from Old French, from Latin procedere (“to go forward, proceed”); see proceed. See: French Nouns '
procédure'.