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Definition of 'proceeding'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) proceeding
a particular action, or course or manner of action.

2.  proceeding
proceedings, a series of activities or events; happenings.

3.  proceeding
proceedings, a record of the business discussed at a meeting of an academic society or other formal group.

4.  proceeding
proceedings, legal action, esp. as carried on in a court of law.

5.  proceeding
the act of a person or thing that proceeds.

Etymology: (1375–1425)

Definition of 'proceeding'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) proceeding, legal proceeding, proceedings
(law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked

Definition of 'proceeding'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) proceeding
the act of one who proceeds, or who prosecutes a design or transaction; progress or movement from one thing to another; a measure or step taken in a course of business; a transaction; as, an illegal proceeding; a cautious or a violent proceeding

2. (noun) proceeding
the course of procedure in the prosecution of an action at law

3. proceeding
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