procedures
- 1Plural of procedure.
The hospital revised its emergency procedures after the inspection.
Auditors reviewed the company's accounting procedures in detail.
Note
The plural that belongs to the countable uses of procedure: separate methods, series of steps, steps in a legal action, or a programmer's subroutines that return no value. When procedure names an organization's established way of doing things as a whole, it is uncountable and takes no plural, as in staff are told to follow procedure. The plural counts distinct methods, while the singular mass noun names the whole system.
procedures is a form of procedure
procedure, noun: A series of small tasks or steps carried out to accomplish a particular goal. Full entry
- Forms
- procedureprocedures plural
- Spelling
- procedure → procedures: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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