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procedural

UK/pɹəˈsiːd͡ʒ(ə)ɹəl/US/pɹəˈsiːd͡ʒ(ə)ɹəl/
adjectiveC2Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #10,438 of 15,258leans written

Procedural means to do with the proper order of steps. A procedural error, procedural fairness, on procedural grounds.

A case lost on procedural grounds was never decided on its merits at all, which is why the word carries so much frustration. In television, a procedural is a drama that follows an investigation step by step.

Definitions of procedural

  1. 1adjectiveproceduralTo do with the proper order of steps.C2

    “The meeting was delayed by a procedural argument about who was allowed to vote.”

procedural is a quality.

Where it comes from

  1. Latin

    procedo — to go forward, proceed

  2. French

    procédure

  3. English

    procedure

  4. English, today

    procedural

From procedure + -al. procedure comes from French procédure, from Old French -, from Latin procedo (“to go forward, proceed”); see proceed.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

procedural in the wild

  • The term procedural knowledge has narrower but related technical uses in both cognitive psychology and intellectual property law.

    Procedural knowledge

  • Cold Case is an American police procedural crime drama television series.

    Cold Case

  • The Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code set is a procedural code set developed by the American Medical Association (AMA).

    Current Procedural Terminology

  • Sawzall is a procedural domain-specific programming language, used by Google to process large numbers of individual log records.

    Sawzall (programming language)

  • The Mentalist is an American procedural drama television series that ran from September 23, 2008, until February 18, 2015, broadcasting 151 episodes over seven seasons, on CBS.

    The Mentalist

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the procedo family

processproceedprocedure

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