procedural
Collocations
5ADJ.
addictive, against, favorite, trial
VERB + PROCEDURAL
calls, dismissed, feel, kill, like, police
PROCEDURAL + NOUN
andrew, texture
PREP.
on
ADV.
horribly, simply
Definitions
adj
Related to procedure.
The judge dismissed the case on procedural grounds: it wasn't the facts or the law, but just that they hadn't filed the correct forms.
An externment of a person is a harsh punishment on him and calls for procedural safeguards against the abuse of power by the authorities.
Generated by means of a procedure, rather than being designed.
a procedural texture
procedural terrain
noun
A type of literature, film, or television program involving a sequence of technical detail.
It is only fitting that the investigation of place-based police procedurals begins in America, where the police procedural was invented and turned into a literary art form.
David Fincher’s horribly addictive samurai procedural, adapted by Andrew Kevin Walker from the graphic novel by Alexis Nolent, stars Michael Fassbender as the un-named titular hitman[…]
Ellipsis of police procedural.
The Wire, however, did not kill the procedural. The procedural simply borrowed The Wire’s aesthetic. The detectives may trudge sombrely from one improbable homicide scene to another, week in, week out, as the blue lights circle bleakly, but we, the viewers, sink gleefully into our sofas ready to drink it in like cocoa.
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Synonyms
adjective — relating to court practice and procedure as opposed to the p
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Idioms & Phrases
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6The judge dismissed the case on procedural grounds: it wasn't the facts or the law, but just that they hadn't filed the correct forms.
WiktionaryAn externment of a person is a harsh punishment on him and calls for procedural safeguards against the abuse of power by the authorities.
Wiktionarya procedural texture
WiktionaryIt is only fitting that the investigation of place-based police procedurals begins in America, where the police procedural was invented and turned into a literary art form.
WiktionaryDavid Fincher’s horribly addictive samurai procedural, adapted by Andrew Kevin Walker from the graphic novel by Alexis Nolent, stars Michael Fassbender as the un-named titular hitman[…]
WiktionaryThe Wire, however, did not kill the procedural. The procedural simply borrowed The Wire’s aesthetic. The detectives may trudge sombrely from one improbable homicide scene to another, week in, week out
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