standard procedure

What does standard procedure mean?

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

What is another word for standard procedure?

Close synonyms include standing operating procedure, standard operating procedure, SOP. 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 procedure a common word?

standard 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for standard procedure come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.