process

CEFRB1

/ˈpɹəʊ.sɛs/

noun · verb

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01
noun
A series of actions used to achieve a result.
02
verb
To deal with information, materials, or people in an organized way.

Examples

Recovery after the accident will be a continuous process that may take several months.
The advancement of modern medicine was a long process.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 5
Parts of speech: 2
Citations: 5

Also pronounced

/-əs/
/ˈpɹəʉˌses/

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noun

Extra meanings

A path or succession of states through which a system passes.
The set of procedures used in the manufacture of a product, especially in the food and chemical industries.
A series of events leading to a result or product.

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There is no easy process of learning.
This product of last month's quality standards committee is quite good, even though the process was flawed.
1960, Mack Tyner, Process Engineering Calculations: Material and Energy Balances – Ordinarily a process plant will use a steam boiler to supply its process heat requirements and to drive a steam-turbine generator.

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But they came up against an impressive force in Bayern, who extended their run to 10 wins on the trot, having scored 28 goals in the process and conceding none.
2011 September 27, Alistair Magowan, “Bayern Munich 2-0 Man City”, in BBC Sport
Yet in “Through a Latte, Darkly”, a new study of how Starbucks has largely avoided paying tax in Britain, Edward Kleinbard […] shows that current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate what he calls “stateless income”: […] In Starbucks’s case, the firm has in effect turned the process of making an expensive cup of coffee into intellectual property.
2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68
For each of the schemes discussed, there is the four-stage process of planning, funding, delivery and operations, in which the various parties involved might be the lead, a partner or an influencer.
2019 October, John Glover, “Heathrow rail expansion”, in Modern Railways, page 73
We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year.
2012 January 26, Robert L. Dorit, “Rereading Darwin”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 14 Nov 2012, page 23
But if either at Calling by the Clerk, after the Session Bell, or before the Ordinary by the Roll, an Advocat compears, and craves to be Marked for the Defender, and to see the Process; The Clerk in the first Case, and the Judge in the second, will allow him to see it
1711, John Spotiswood, The Form of Process, section 39

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Origin

noun

From Middle English proces, from Old French procés (“journey”), from Latin prōcessus (“course, progression”), nominalization of prōcēdō (“proceed, advance”).

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noun

The factory uses a special blank to turn raw materials into finished products.