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

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats