word | process |
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definition | noun A process is a series of actions which are carried out in order to achieve a particular result. There was total agreement to start the peace process as soon as possible. They decided to spread the building process over three years. The best way to proceed is by a process of elimination. A process is a series of things which happen naturally and result in a biological or chemical change. It occurs in elderly men, apparently as part of the ageing process. The regularity with which this occurs suggests that the process is genetically determined. verb When raw materials or foods are processed, they are prepared in factories before they are used or sold. ...fish which are processed by freezing, canning or smoking. The material will be processed into plastic pellets. ...diets high in refined and processed foods. ...the cost of re-engineering the production process. America sent cotton to England for processing. ...nuclear fuel processing plant. When people process information, they put it through a system or into a computer in order to deal with it. ...facilities to process the data, and the right to publish the results. The information gathered by the telescopes will be processed by computers. ...data processing. The advances in communications altered the nature of information processing. When people are processed by officials, their case is dealt with in stages and they pass from one stage of the process to the next . Patients took more than two hours to be processed through the department. |
inflections | processesprocessingprocessedprocessingprocessing |
cefr-level | B2 |
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