proceeding
Action now underway
A proceeding is an action or course of action, often official or formal.
Legal proceedings are the events that make up a court case or hearing: The judge halted proceedings.
In the plural, proceedings can mean a published record of a conference or learned society: proceedings of the Royal Academy.
To proceed is to continue or move forward.
Sequential forward movement
- progressMovement toward improvement
- continuationAct of proceeding further
- moving forwardContinuing toward a goal
- onwardToward what lies ahead
advancing · headway · momentum · course · trajectory · underway · resumption · unfolding
Civil court proceeding
- litigationLegal dispute process
- trialJudicial examination of claims
- courtroomJudicial proceedings chamber
- plaintiffCivil case initiator
defendant · verdict · testimony · evidence · appeal · judgment · subpoena · deposition
Formal discussion list
- orderMethodical arrangement or request
- rulesPrinciples governing behavior
- conductManner of behaving
- decorumFitting social conduct
formality · guidelines · minutes · parliamentary · quorum · motion · session · chair
Ceremonial set of actions
- inaugurationFormal beginning ceremony
- commencementAct of starting
- convocationFormal ceremonial gathering
- coronationCeremony installing a sovereign
ordination · pageantry · benediction · liturgy · observance · solemnity · vows · investiture
progression
Sequential forward movement
- progressMovement toward improvement
- continuationAct of proceeding further
- moving forwardContinuing toward a goal
onward · advancing · headway · momentum · course · trajectory · underway · resumption · unfolding
lawsuit
Civil court proceeding
- litigationLegal dispute process
- trialJudicial examination of claims
- courtroomJudicial proceedings chamber
plaintiff · defendant · verdict · testimony · evidence · appeal · judgment · subpoena · deposition · cross-examination
agenda
Formal discussion list
decorum · formality · guidelines · minutes · parliamentary · quorum · motion · session · chair · floor
ritual
Ceremonial set of actions
- inaugurationFormal beginning ceremony
- commencementAct of starting
- convocationFormal ceremonial gathering
coronation · ordination · pageantry · benediction · liturgy · observance · solemnity · vows · investiture · induction
- movementwalk, move, go, run, jump
- forward motionwalking, running, jogging, sprinting, marching
- happeningshappenings, happening, event, occurrence, events
- ongoing actionscontinuing, lasting, persisting, remaining, staying
- arbitrationarbitration panel, arbitrator, award, binding decision, arbitrators
- Courts-Martialcourt martial, military court, judge advocate, convening authority, military justice
proceedingretreating
Moving back from advance
receding · regressing · retrogressing · withdrawing · reversing
- legal proceedingsFormal court-based dispute resolution
- divorce proceedingsLegal process ending marriage
- trial proceedingsEvents during a case
- criminal proceedingsLegal process for offenses
- court proceedingsFormal judicial process
- stay of proceedingsCourt-imposed case suspension