meaning of proceeding
1. 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; as, an illegal proceeding; a cautious or a violent proceeding.
2. The course of procedure in the prosecution of an action at law.
3. of Proceed
4. law the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked
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