proceeding

Other forms of proceeding

plural

proceedings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about proceeding

What does proceeding mean?

proceeding means "(law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked".

How many syllables are in proceeding?

proceeding has 3 syllables: pro-cee-ding. The stress falls on "cee". In IPA it is /pɹəˈsidɪŋ/.

What is another word for proceeding?

Close synonyms include legal proceeding, proceedings. 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 proceeding a common word?

proceeding is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with proceeding?

6 words rhyme with proceeding. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.