How to say "procedure" in Japanese

• 手続きてつづきJLPT N2approx.Common
  nounCovers procedures in the administrative or legal sense — the formal steps, paperwork and formalities needed to apply, register or file. This is the word to reach for when 'procedure' is bureaucratic.
  搭乗とうじょう手続てつづきをするのはどこですか。↗

  Where is the check-in counter?
• 手術しゅじゅつJLPT N3approx.Common
  noun, suru verb, transitive verbOnly for the medical sense: a surgical operation performed on a patient. When English 'procedure' refers to surgery, this is the word; for any other sense it does not fit.
  手術しゅじゅつをしなければなりません。↗

  You have to have an operation.
• 手順てじゅんJLPT N1approx.Common
  nounThe step-by-step sense: the ordered sequence of actions for carrying out a task, as in work instructions or a manual. Choose this when 'procedure' means how to do something, step by step.
  Windows XPにはＣＤを焼やく機能きのうがあるそうですが、その手順てじゅんを解説かいせつしているページを教おしえてください。↗

  I hear that you can burn CDs with Windows XP; could you tell me a website that explains the procedures involved?
• 方法ほうほうJLPT N3approx.Common
  nounReally means 'method' or 'way' — how something is done in general. It overlaps with 'procedure' only loosely, so use it when the emphasis is on the manner or method rather than set steps.
  これが、私が英語えいごを勉強べんきょうした方法ほうほうだ。↗

  This is how I learned English.
• 順序じゅんじょJLPT N2approx.Common
  nounEssentially means 'order' or 'sequence' — the order in which things happen or are arranged. For 'procedure' in the sense of a set of steps, it is only a marginal match.
  まずご両親りょうしんに話はなしてみるのが順序じゅんじょというものだろう。↗

  First of all, you should talk it over with your parents.

Use 「手続き」 for official or legal procedures and formalities, 手術 only for a surgical operation, 手順 for a step-by-step working procedure, 方法 for a general method or way, and 順序 mainly for order or sequence.

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• 手続きてつづきprocedure
• 手術しゅじゅつsurgery
• 手順てじゅんprocess
• 方法ほうほうmethod
• プロシージャprocedure
• 進め方すすめかたformat
• 術式じゅつしきsurgical method
• 順序じゅんじょprocedure
• 施術せじゅつsurgical operation
• 流れながれcourse (of events)