procedural

Speech parts

1. procedural - Noun

2. procedural - Adjective

Meaning

relating to court practice and procedure as opposed to the principles of law

of or relating to procedure

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

adjective around process case current established action active formal practical technical contemporary acting organized mechanical
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Antonyms

real strong formal essential crucial grave
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Phrases with the word

civil procedural procedural matter procedural representative second constitutional procedural stage criminal procedural code procedural guarantees

Examples

The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards. Felix Frankfurter

After all, a district judge who gives harsh sentences to Yankees fans and lenient sentences to Red Sox fans would not be acting reasonably even if her procedural rulings were impeccable. John Paul Stevens

Substantive and procedural law benefits and protects landlords over tenants, creditors over debtors, lenders over borrowers, and the poor are seldom among the favored parties. John Turner

Policing, as with all procedural jobs, expands to fill all the time and consume all the resources available for it. Charles Stross

Nevertheless, I consider OOP as an aspect of programming in the large; that is, as an aspect that logically follows programming in the small and requires sound knowledge of procedural programming. Niklaus Wirth

Carbon is probably a bit harder to wrap since it's procedural. Bill Hayden

Close letter words and terms

procede procedendo proceding procedural due process procedural guarantees procedural issue