From French procédure, from Old French -, from Latin procedo; see proceed.

• (British) IPA: /pɹəˈsiːd͡ʒə/
• (America) IPA: /pɹəˈsid͡ʒɚ/

procedure

1. A particular method for performing a task.
2. A series of small tasks or steps taken to accomplish an end.
3. (uncountable) The set of established forms or methods of an organized body for accomplishing a certain task or tasks.

   Ensure that you follow procedure when accessing customers' personal information.

4. The steps taken in an action or other legal proceeding.
   • 1832, [Isaac Taylor], Saturday Evening. […], London: Holdsworth and Ball, →OCLC ↗:

     Gracious procedures.

5. (obsolete) That which results; issue; product.
   • 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 ↗:

     There is not any known Substance, but Earth, and the Procedure of Earth (as Tile, Stone, &c.) that yeeldeth any Moss or Herby Substance.

6. (computing) A subroutine or function coded to perform a specific task, but does not return a value.
7. (medicine) A surgical operation.

• (method) algorithm, method, process, routine
• (set of established forms or methods of an organized body) protocol
• (computing) function, routine, sub, subroutine, method (although some of these have slightly differing meanings in some programming languages)
• (medicine) operation

• proceed
• process
• procession

• French: procédé, procédure
• German: Verfahren, Verfahrensweise, [medizinischer] Eingriff
• Italian: procedura, iter, procedimento, metodo
• Portuguese: procedimento
• Russian: процеду́ра
• Spanish: procedimiento

• French: procédure
• German: Prozess, Vorgehen, Vorgehensweise
• Italian: procedura
• Portuguese: procedimento
• Russian: процеду́ра
• Spanish: procedimiento

• French: procédure
• German: Prozedur
• Italian: procedura, procedimento
• Portuguese: procedimento
• Russian: процеду́ра
• Spanish: procedimiento

• Russian: процеду́ра
• Spanish: procedimiento, trámite

• French: fonction
• German: Unterprogramm
• Portuguese: procedimento
• Russian: процеду́ра