Procedure Meaning
/pɹəˈsiː.d͡ʒə/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA particular method for performing a task.
nounA series of small tasks or steps taken to accomplish an end.
Sentence Examples
What is the procedure for getting a visa?
You will save time if you adopt this new procedure.
CEFR Practice Quiz
Before surgery, the nurse explained the entire ____ to the patient step by step.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The nurse explained the ____ step by step before asking the patient to sign the consent form.
Word Origin & History
From French procédure, from Old French, from Latin procedere (“to go forward, proceed”); see proceed.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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:
"Gracious procedures."
— 1832, [Isaac Taylor], Saturday Evening. […], London: Holdsworth and Ball, →OCLC:
"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:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
Before surgery, the nurse explained the entire ____ to the patient step by step.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The nurse explained the ____ step by step before asking the patient to sign the consent form.