Word Study
proceedings
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun proceedings has 2 senses
- proceedings(n = noun.act) legal proceeding, proceeding - (law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked; Array has particulars: foreclosure, intervention, procedure, action, action at law, legal action, case, causa, cause, lawsuit, suit, adoption, appeal, bankruptcy, receivership, judicial proceeding, litigation, naturalisation, naturalization, trial, review, hearing
- proceedings(n = noun.communication) minutes, transactions - a written account of what transpired at a meeting; Array is a kind of written account, written record
is a kind of due process, due process of law
Derived form verb proceed3
is a part of minute book
has particulars: congressional record, hansard
THESAURUS
proceedings
account, account rendered, accounting, acta, action, activeness, activism, activity, affairs, annual, brief, bulletin, business, case, cause, cause in court, census report, circumstances, concerns, condition of things, conditions, dealings, doings, election returns, goings-on, judicial process, lawsuit, legal action, legal case, legal proceedings, legal process, legal remedy, life, litigation, march of events, matters, militancy, minutes, motion, movement, political activism, prosecution, relations, report, returns, run of things, state of affairs, statement, stir, suit, suit at law, tally, the record, the times, the world, transactions, what happens, yearbook
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