standing operating procedure

What does standing operating procedure mean?

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

What is another word for standing operating procedure?

Close synonyms include standard 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 standing operating procedure a common word?

standing 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.

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