Synonyms for procédure
prəˈsi dʒərprocé·dure

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:2.3 / 3 votes

1. procedurenoun

   A particular method for performing a task.

   Synonyms:
   routine, process, algorithm, method, protocol

2. procedurenoun

   Synonyms:
   function, sub, method, routine, subroutine

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. procedure

   Operation is action considered with reference to the thing acted upon, and may apply to the action of an intelligent agent or of a material substance or force; as, the operation of a medicine. Performance and execution denote intelligent action, considered with reference to the actor or to that which he accomplishes; performance accomplishing the will of the actor, execution often the will of another; we speak of the performance of a duty, the execution of a sentence. Compare ACT.

   Synonyms:
   action, agency, effect, execution, force, influence, operation, performance, result

   Antonyms:
   failure, inaction, ineffectiveness, inefficiency, inutility, powerlessness, uselessness

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.0 / 1 vote

1. procedure

   Synonyms:
   proceeding, act, progress, course of conduct, process

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:2.3 / 9 votes

1. procedure, processnoun

   a particular course of action intended to achieve a result

   "the procedure of obtaining a driver's license"; "it was a process of trial and error"

   Synonyms:
   process, unconscious process, cognitive operation, cognitive process, operation, function, subprogram, procedure, mental process, physical process, subroutine, outgrowth, appendage, summons, routine

2. operation, procedurenoun

   a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work

   "the operations in building a house"; "certain machine tool operations"

   Synonyms:
   routine, surgery, mathematical operation, process, procedure, subroutine, surgical operation, function, cognitive operation, performance, subprogram, functioning, operation, military operation, cognitive process, surgical procedure, mental process, mathematical process, surgical process

3. routine, subroutine, subprogram, procedure, functionnoun

   a set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program

   Synonyms:
   turn, modus operandi, subprogram, social function, process, procedure, mathematical function, routine, subroutine, role, occasion, act, number, purpose, affair, part, map, office, operation, use, single-valued function, function, bit, social occasion, mapping

4. procedurenoun

   a mode of conducting legal and parliamentary proceedings

   Synonyms:
   routine, subroutine, operation, process, function, subprogram

Matched Categories

1. • Activity
   • Proceeding
   • Work

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1. procedurenoun

   Synonyms:
   conduct, practice, course, process, management, course of action, mode of operation

2. procedurenoun

   Synonyms:
   act, transaction, deed, action, performance, proceeding, measure, step

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1. List of paraphrases for "procedure":

   proceedings, procedures, process, procedural, proceeding, procédure, internal, procedimento, method, domestic, interior, procedura, regime, order, action, homeland, indoor, verfahren

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1. Prime Minister Manuel Valls:

   The numbers, time and procedure for convening these operational reservists is being decided by the Directorate General of the National Gendarmerie.

2. Joshua Matz:

   Every single step of the process contemplated by The Trump administration is the stuff of legal fantasy, if there is an applicable rule of constitutional law and appellate procedure that this would not violate, it does not occur to me.

3. Stephen Miller:

   They have an obligation to share with the American people immediately without delay everything they know about how this individual entered the country whether it through a visa or the visa waiver program, what red flags existed, what criminal record existed, what prior immigration history if any existed…were there any errors, lies or misstatements on the application, what procedure he went through, because if someone with this kind of history can apparently get into the country with that degree of ease, somebody with an apparent history of extremism, and terrorist sympathies, then it indicates that all the guardrails when it comes to vetting are gone.

4. Memo Gidley:

   It does look like something that would have, maybe in a way, (caused the wreck), it wasn't like there were five or six cars around me. There was only one car ahead of me, and he darted to the right, and I darted to the left, which was the standard procedure. But I never saw that car there. So yeah, maybe the sun definitely had some sort of impact.

5. The FDA:

   The two contraindications help to clarify the narrow population of patients in which laparoscopic power morcellation may be an appropriate therapeutic option, for example, some younger women who are interested in maintaining their ability to have children or wish to keep their uterus intact after being informed of the risks may be candidates for this procedure.