proceeding

Academic Word List, sublist 1.

About 7.68 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb present participle and gerund of proceed
2. noun The act of one who proceeds, or who prosecutes a design or transaction.
3. noun An event or happening; something that happens.

   I had a grandstand view of the proceedings.

4. noun A published collection of papers presented at an academic conference, or representing the acts of a learned society.
5. noun Progress or movement from one thing to another.
6. noun A measure or step taken in a course of business; a transaction.

   an illegal proceeding

7. noun Any legal action, especially one that is not a lawsuit.

Similar words

judicial proceeding legal proceeding advancing starting underway start progress undertake approach continue

Often followed by

to from in with is on of by was

Word family

procedural procedure procedures proceed proceeded proceedings proceeds