n. 25B6; noun
investigation is a long process : PROCEDURE, operation, action, activity, exercise, affair, business, job, task, undertaking.
a new canning process : METHOD, system, technique, means, practice, way, approach, methodology.
25B6; verb applications are processed rapidly : DEAL WITH, attend to, see to, sort out, handle, take care of, action.
25A0; in the process of IN THE MIDDLE OF, in the course of, in the midst of, in the throes of, busy with, occupied in/with, taken up with/by, involved in.