WordNet
n. a prescribed procedure to be followed routinely; "rote memorization has been the educator's standard operating procedure for centuries" [syn: standard operating procedure, SOP, standard procedure]
Usage examples of "standing operating procedure".
Anny Aviation Center standing operating procedure and to use one of their own.
Captain MacNamara had spent a good deal of time on the way from the States writing a Standing Operating Procedure for the company that would make it absolutely impossible for anyone who didn't have a busted-up vehicle to turn in to get one from his pool.
The guard knew Graham by sight, but the security Standing Operating Procedure dictated that no one would be passed through without proper identification, not even an Assistant Director of the OSS.
In this case, twenty years of friendship made my friends abandon that Standing Operating Procedure.
He was consistently drunk, insulted colleagues and foreigners, fell down and was helped home by the Mexican police, broke every standing operating procedure imaginable, and re.