polity, guidelines; method, methodology, technique, system; attack, tack, approach; way, wise, manner, means, mode, fashion, style, ways and means; wont, custom, practice, praxis, Latin, modus operandi, MO; common practice, rule, standard operating procedure, SOP, Inf bit.
2. step, measure, move, maneuver; process, operation, course or mode of action; transaction, proceedings.
3. bureaucracy, red tape, rigmarole; routine, rut, groove, beaten path; Inf. rat race, treadmill, merry-go-round.
proceed, v. 1. advance, progress, continue, move, move on, move ahead, go, go ahead or forward, pass on, get along, come on, wag; roll, roll on, gather head or steam, cover ground, make headway, make progress; make one's way, work one's way, press on, push on, forge ahead.
2. take action, take steps or measures, act on, do something about, SI. get with it, SI. get on the stick.
3. issue, issue forth, come forth, sally forth; course, run, flow, stream.
4. Usu.
proceed from arise, emanate, spring, stem, come; begin, commence, start, originate; derive, descend; result, ensue, follow, grow out of. -n. S.
proceeds a. result, final or end result, outcome, consequence; produce, product, yield, output, crop, harvest, b. gross, gross receipts, receipts, handle, returns; gate receipts, gate, box office; revenue, earnings, income; gross profit; total, final tally,
c. profits, net profit, net, reward, gain, remuneration, Archaic, avails, Inf. percentage, Brit. SI. get.
proceeding, n. 1. step, measure, move, maneuver; act, deed, doing; operation, process, course or mode of action.
2. procedure. See - procedure (def. 1).
3. proceedings the record, records, minutes, transactions, Acta; affairs, matters, concerns, dealings, doings, Inf goings on.
process, n. 1. procedure; operation. See - procedure (defs. 1, 2).
-v. 2. prepare, treat, pretreat; refine, smelt; cure, tan; brew, distill, extract; convert, transform, change, change over.
3. handle, deal with, contend with, do with; organize, systemize, systematize; classify, categorize, group, bracket; grade, gradate, rank; screen, sift, sieve,
procession, n. 1. train, cortege, pageant, Obs. pomp; parade, march, line, column, file, string; caravan, cavalcade, motorcade; review, promenade, march past; stream, steady stream.
2. series, sequence, continuation, run, course, string; cycle, round, rotation.
proclaim, v. 1. announce, advertise, promulgate, declare, profess, enounce; herald, publish, broadcast, make known; signal, annunciate, knell; cry, blazon, blare, trumpet, bruit; disclose, reveal, divulgate.
2. pronounce, rule, decree, report, ordain,
proclamation, n. 1. announcement, promulgation, pronunciamento, manifesto, statement, formal or authoritative statement or announcement; declaration, pronouncement, enouncement, profession; notification, notice, formal notice.
2. edict, fiat, decree, dictum, ukase, bull, papal bull, Rom. Cath. Ch. encyclical, allocution; command, order, imperative; rule, ruling, law, ordinance,
proclivity, n. 1. inclination, inclining, propensity, leaning, bent, turn, veering, Biol, tropism, cast; tendency, tending, bearing, verging, gravitation, drift; proneness, subjectability, aptness, liableness, likeliness, susceptibility, weakness, openness; mind-set, disposition, Pathol, diathesis, idiosyncrasy, idiosvncrasis, grain,