proceeding

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   An event or happening; something that happens.

   He had often painted himself at a mirror, a tortuous and fascinating proceeding, as every artist knows, and had been forced to admire the way in which he was made.

2. 2
   noun

   Progress or movement from one thing to another.

   I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town. I was completely mystified at such an unusual proceeding.

3. 3
   noun

   A measure or step taken in a course of business; a transaction.

   an illegal proceeding

4. 4
   noun

   Any legal action, especially one that is not a lawsuit.

   December 7 2016, Kelly Phillips Erb writing in Forbes, House Says No To Renewed Efforts To Impeach IRS Commissioner Since impeachment is a legal proceeding, while anyone can make a motion to start the process, the Judiciary Committee determines whether there are sufficient grounds for impeachment.

5. 5
   noun

   (law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked

6. 6
   verb

   present participle and gerund of proceed

7. 7
   noun

   The act of one who proceeds, or who prosecutes a design or transaction.

8. 8
   noun

   A published collection of papers presented at an academic conference, or representing the acts of a learned society.

Etymology

By surface analysis, proceed + -ing.