What is most closely the definition of process as it is used in the passage below “We are choosing these companies because they haven't been fair in their hiring policies; and we are choosing them because they can begin the process of saying they are going to support the needs and the rights of these men who are on strike. And then they can move downtown and tell Mayor Loeb to do what is right.”
A. a series of interdependent operations executed by a computer
B. a summons, writ, or mandate requiring a person to appear in court
C. a series of steps followed in order to achieve a specific goal
D. a natural, involuntary phenomenon in which gradual ongoing changes lead to a particular result