proceeding

Meaning

Verb

present participle and gerund of proceed

Noun

1. The act of one who proceeds, or who prosecutes a design or transaction.
2. An event or happening; something that happens.
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.
6. Any legal action, especially one that is not a lawsuit.

proceed

1. (intransitive) To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to carry on.
2. (intransitive) To pass from one point, topic, or stage, to another.
3. (intransitive) To come from; to have as its source or origin.
4. (intransitive) To go on in an orderly or regulated manner; to begin and carry on a series of acts or measures; to act methodically.
5. (intransitive) To be transacted; to take place; to occur.
6. (intransitive) To be applicable or effective; to be valid.
7. (intransitive) To begin and carry on a legal process.
8. (intransitive) To take an academic degree.

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Synonyms

going

process

procedure

legal proceeding

acting

emanating

passing

act

proceedings

form

doing

deed

game

going on

headway

input

instrumentality

judgment

lawsuit

leading

line

march

move

moving

navel

passage

power

procession

progress

relating

resulting

revolution

route

stepping forward

system

tenor

treatment

umbilical

going forth

being in

being transferred

leaving for

walking

🚶

being accomplished

moving onward

action

action at law

advance

agency

behaving

Translations

procès

procedimento

πορεία

procedimiento

ενέργεια

azione

procedura

processo

procedimento

diligencia

procédure

fortsetzend

procédé

verfahrend

trámite

Pronounced as (IPA)

/pɹəˈsiːdɪŋ/

Etymology

By surface analysis, proceed + -ing.