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Noun: standard operating procedure
  1. A prescribed procedure to be followed routinely
    "rote memorization has been the educator's standard operating procedure for centuries";
    - standing operating procedure, SOP, standard procedure

Derived forms: standard operating procedures

Type of: operating procedure

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