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proceeding

UK/pɹəˈsiːdɪŋ/US/pɹəˈsiːdɪŋ/
nounC1Common in everyday speech and writing · #4,756 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: proceedings

A proceeding is an action taken, especially a step in a court case. Legal proceedings, issue proceedings, the proceedings began.

In law it is nearly always plural: to issue proceedings is to begin a case. The other plural sense is a published record, so the proceedings of a conference are the papers given at it, printed afterwards.

Definitions of proceeding

  1. 1nounproceedingAn action taken, especially a step in a court case.C1

    “She was a witness in a criminal proceeding against her former boss.”

proceeding is an action.

Where it comes from

  1. Proto-Indo-European

    *per-

  2. Latin

    prōcēdō — to go forth, go forward, advance

  3. Old French

    proceder

  4. Middle English

    proceden

  5. English

    proceed

  6. English, today

    proceeding

Built from

  • prō · Latin — forth
  • cēdō · Latin — to go

by surface analysis, proceed + -ing. proceed comes from Middle English proceden, from Old French proceder, from Latin prōcēdō (“to go forth, go forward, advance”), from prō (“forth”) + cēdō (“to go”); see cede.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

proceeding in the wild

  • A subpoena is a legal document that commands a person to appear at a proceeding.

    Witness

  • A proceeding in an executive agency to establish a right, such as patent prosecution, can also be ex parte.

    Ex parte

  • Before proceeding further I wish to lay stress on the following point which the student should bear in mind.

    Chess Fundamentals· José Raúl Capablanca

  • Proceeding farther inland, the country improves: beautiful villas and nice cottages are here and there scattered along the beach.

    Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage Round the World of H.M.S. Beagle Under the Command of Captain Fitz Roy, R.N.· Charles Darwin

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

From Project Gutenberg, public domain. These sentences are from real books, shown to illustrate the word at work.

Related words

the cēdō family

necessaryaccesssuccess

proceeding — used about once every 1,079 pages · #4,756 · point at the bar for the others

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