proceding

Noun

proceeding (plural proceedings)

1. The act of one who proceeds, or who prosecutes a design or transaction.
2. An event or happening; something that happens.
   • I had a grandstand view of the proceedings.

   Synonyms:

   befalling, incident, affair, episode, instance, event, goings-on, happening, hap, occasion

3. (always in plural) A published collection of papers presented at an academic conference, or representing the acts of a learned society.
4. 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...1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   procedure

5. A measure or step taken in a course of business; a transaction.
   • an illegal proceeding

   Synonyms:

   measure, step, transaction

6. 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.