Proceeding

Quick meaning: Proceeding is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of proceed.

Meaning

present participle and gerund of proceed.

More Meanings

1. The act of one who proceeds, or who prosecutes a design or transaction.
2. An event or happening; something that happens.
3. (always in plural) A published collection of papers presented at an academic conference, or representing the acts of a learned society.
4. Progress or movement from one thing to another.
5. A measure or step taken in a course of business; a transaction.
6. (law) Any legal action, especially one that is not a lawsuit.

Example Sentences

an illegal proceeding

a cautious or a violent proceeding

The proceedings of the high commission.

I had a grandstand view of the proceedings.

Word Forms

• proceding
• proceedings

Synonyms for proceeding

Depending on context, synonyms include befalling, incident, affair, episode, event, goings-on.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include advancing, starting, underway, start, progress, undertake.

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