judicial proceeding

1. 1.

   a legal proceeding in a court; a judicial contest to determine and enforce legal rights

   Synonymslitigation

   Broaderproceeding

   Narrowercustody battlevexatious litigation

   law

Questions about judicial proceeding

What does judicial proceeding mean?

judicial proceeding means "a legal proceeding in a court; a judicial contest to determine and enforce legal rights".

What is another word for judicial proceeding?

Close synonyms include litigation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is judicial proceeding a common word?

judicial proceeding is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.