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means The system of methods, rules, and principles behind how you do something — or, in loose modern use, just a fancier-sounding word for 'method.'

from Built from the Greek 'methodos' (method, a pursuing after — from 'meta' meaning after, and 'hodos' meaning way or path) plus '-logia' (study of). So technically it means 'the study of methods,' the reasoning behind your approach — not the approach itself. That distinction is exactly what gets lost when people reach for it to describe a to-do list.