operating procedure

1. 1.

   a procedure for operating something or for dealing with a given situation

   Broaderprocedure

   Narrowerstanding operating procedure

Questions about operating procedure

What does operating procedure mean?

operating procedure means "a procedure for operating something or for dealing with a given situation".

Is operating procedure a common word?

operating procedure is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.