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process
/ˈprəʊses/
/ˈprɑːses/ noun [C] Definition
ACTIONS › a series of actions that you take in order to achieve a result: Buying a house can be a long and complicated process.
CHANGES [C] › a series of changes that happen naturally: the ageing process
in the process › If you are doing something, and you do something else in the process, the second thing happens as a result of doing the first thing: She stood up to say hello and spilled her drink in the process.
be in the process of doing sth › to have started doing something: We're in the process of painting our apartment.
(Definition of process noun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
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