standard operating procedure

1. 1.

   a prescribed procedure to be followed routinely

   “rote memorization has been the educator's standard operating procedure for centuries”

   Synonymsstanding operating procedureSOPstandard procedure

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Questions about standard operating procedure

What does standard operating procedure mean?

standard operating procedure means "a prescribed procedure to be followed routinely".

What is another word for standard operating procedure?

Close synonyms include standing operating procedure, SOP, standard procedure. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is standard operating procedure a common word?

standard 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.