Associations to the word «Proceeding»

Wiktionary

PROCEEDING, verb. Present participle of proceed
PROCEEDING, noun. The act of one who proceeds, or who prosecutes a design or transaction
PROCEEDING, noun. The collection of academic papers published in the context of an academic conference
PROCEEDING, noun. Progress or movement from one thing to another.
PROCEEDING, noun. ​A measure or step taken in a course of business; a transaction; as, an illegal proceeding; a cautious or a violent proceeding.
PROCEEDING, noun. Plural, see proceedings.

Dictionary definition

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

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky