Proceeding

/pɹəˈsiːdɪŋ/ · verb

Meaning

present participle and gerund of proceed.

Definitions by Sense

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

Example Sentences

I had a grandstand view of the proceedings.

He had often painted himself at a mirror, a tortuous and fascinating proceeding, as every artist knows, and had been forced to admire the way in which he was made.

It was with feelings of no small astonishment, when the carriage drew up before the door with the red lamp, and the very legible inscription of ‘Sawyer, late Nockemorf,’ that Mr. Pickwick saw, on popping his head out of the coach window, the boy in the gray livery very busily employed in putting up the shutters—the which, being an unusual and an unbusinesslike proceeding at that hour of the morning, at once suggested to his mind two inferences: the one, that some good friend and patient of Mr. Bob Sawyer’s was dead; the other, that Mr. Bob Sawyer himself was bankrupt.

I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town. I was completely mystified at such an unusual proceeding.

an illegal proceeding

a cautious or a violent proceeding

The proceedings of the high commission.

December 7 2016, Kelly Phillips Erb writing in Forbes, House Says No To Renewed Efforts To Impeach IRS Commissioner Since impeachment is a legal proceeding, while anyone can make a motion to start the process, the Judiciary Committee determines whether there are sufficient grounds for impeachment.

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• proceding
• proceedings

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