proceedings

1. 1.

   (law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked

   Synonymsproceedinglegal proceeding

   Broaderdue process

   Narrowerforeclosureinterventionprocedurelegal actionlawsuitadoptionappealbankruptcyreceivershiplitigation

   law

2. 2.

   a written account of what transpired at a meeting

   Synonymsminutestransactions

   Broaderwritten record

   NarrowerCongressional RecordHansard

   Part ofminute book

Other forms of proceedings

plural

proceedingses·

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 proceedings

What does proceedings mean?

proceedings means "(law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in proceedings?

proceedings has 3 syllables: pro-cee-dings. The stress falls on "cee". In IPA it is /pɹoʊˈsidɪŋz/.

What is another word for proceedings?

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

proceedings 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.