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proceedings

UK/pɹəˈsiːd.ɪŋz/
nounB2Common in everyday speech and writing · #4,947 of 15,258leans written

Proceedings are the formal steps of a legal case or a meeting. Issue proceedings, criminal proceedings, the proceedings were adjourned.

In law it is the whole action from start to finish, and to issue proceedings is to begin one. The other sense is a published record, so the proceedings of a conference are the papers given there, collected and printed.

Definitions of proceedings

  1. 1nounproceedingsThe formal steps of a legal case or a meeting.B2

    “The proceedings were delayed when one of the jurors fell ill.”

proceedings is formal steps.

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proceedings in the wild

  • In Scots law, the terms "accused" or "panel" are used instead in criminal proceedings and "defender" in civil proceedings.

    Defendant

  • Proceedings of the Institution of Electrical Engineers was a series journals which published the proceedings of the Institution of Electrical Engineers.

    Proceedings of the Institution of Electrical Engineers

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.