Proceeding

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A course of action; a procedure.
  • n. A sequence of events occurring at a particular place or occasion: hectic proceedings in the kitchen.
  • n. A record of business carried on by a society or other organization; minutes.
  • n. Law Legal action; litigation. Often used in the plural.
  • n. Law The instituting or conducting of legal action.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. Present participle of proceed.
  • n. The act of one who proceeds, or who prosecutes a design or transaction
  • n. Progress or movement from one thing to another.
  • n. A measure or step taken in a course of business; a transaction; as, an illegal proceeding; a cautious or a violent proceeding.
  • n. Plural, see proceedings.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act of one who proceeds, or who prosecutes a design or transaction; progress or movement from one thing to another; a measure or step taken in a course of business; a transaction
  • n. The course of procedure in the prosecution of an action at law.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A going forward; a procession; the act of one who proceeds; especially, a measure or step taken; a doing; a transaction: as, an illegal proceeding; a cautious proceeding; a violent proceeding.
  • n. Advancement.
  • n. plural A record or account of the transactions of a society: as, the Proceedings of the American Philological Association.
  • n. Synonyms Procedure, Operation, etc. (see process), measure, performance, step.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. (law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked
  • Hypernym
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    Synonym
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    measure    transaction    procedure    step   
    Verb Stem
    proceed   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Reading    acceding    bleeding    breeding    ceding    conceding    exceeding    feeding    heeding    impeding   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    conduct    decision    transaction    proceed    affair    trial    action    proposal    decree    procedure