Meaning

6 senses
  1. The act of one who proceeds, or who prosecutes a design or transaction.

  2. An event or happening; something that happens.

    I had a grandstand view of the proceedings.

  3. 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.

    an illegal proceeding

    a cautious or a violent proceeding

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

More definitions
  • (law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked

Examples

11 sentences
  1. You must bring proceedings against him.

  2. He's over ten minutes late to the proceedings.

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  3. One of the visitors cried out to obstruct the proceedings.

  4. She was trying to inject some fun into the grim proceedings.

  5. They're monitoring proceedings.

    deSie überwachen das Verfahren. — GuidoW

Translations

3 languages

Origin

By surface analysis, proceed + -ing.

By surface analysis, proceed + -ing.

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Forms

plural: proceedings
Singularproceeding
Pluralproceedings

regular

Synonyms

18 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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