Other forms: procedures
A procedure is the settled order of steps for doing something. Follow the procedure, standard procedure, a surgical procedure.
Written procedures exist so that the right thing happens when the experienced person is away, and the checklist is the most effective form — surgical checklists cut deaths measurably. In medicine a procedure is an operation. Note proceed, from the Latin for going forward.
1nounprocedureThe settled order of steps for doing something.
“If the fire alarm rings, follow the usual procedure and leave by the nearest exit.”
procedure is a set of steps.
French procedure comes from proceder, from Latin procedere, to go forward — pro plus cedere. Proceed and cede come from the same going.
Latin
procedo — to go forward, proceed
French
procédure
English, today
procedure
From French procédure, from Old French -, from Latin procedo (“to go forward, proceed”); see proceed.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA