proceeding
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7.9
- noun
- /prəˈsiːdɪŋ/
- Formal
:
procedimiento (judicial)
- The judge called the case and began the legal proceeding to hear both sides of the argument.
- legal proceeding
- criminal proceeding
- civil proceeding
She's claiming he said in his divorce proceeding he never had an affair at all.
- She's claiming he said in his divorce proceeding he never had an affair at all.
- And the Klan challenged this kind of in a last minute proceeding.
- It's very hard to convict somebody in a criminal proceeding.
- Well, we could go on for hours clearly, but I think we're going to have to call the formal part of the proceedings to a stop.
- But regardless of whether it's provided to a board or the council, at least in my experience, most of the time it's sort of a star chamber proceeding.
- So in a nutshell, the reason I had to write letters for four years is because you don't have a right to an attorney in a post conviction proceeding.
- And then I got, and then when I, when I got out of the criminal proceedings, then middle week, Shaheed Chaudhry of Manchester, they really helped me as well.
- He's been charged with the, you know, the obstruction of the proceeding relating to trying to pressure Mike Pence into not certifying.
- I'm not going to let it sully the whole proceedings, but I'm starting from irked.
- She didn't even start the proper proceedings because she realized who I had defended me how weak the case was.
Examples
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Considerable procedural differences between adjudication in court and in an administrative proceeding are discussed in more detail below.
Academic text (2017) -
That painting is material evidence in a felony proceeding.
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We would like the following to be read into the record of this proceeding.
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The interview was never presented as an exhibit in this proceeding," Prime Nine announced.
Fiction book (2001) -
I will not allow this proceeding to become as unruly as it is outside.
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This entire proceeding is an outrage.
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We believe in any judicial proceeding, this tape would be inadmissible.
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This is the sovereign state of Mississippi's proceeding.
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At each one of these stages, the bankruptcy proceeding dramatically affects environmental actions against the debtor.
Academic text (1993) -
Over 5,200 inter partes review petitions have been filed at the PTO since the proceeding's inception in September 2012.
Academic text (2017)
Synonyms
159
7.5
Official legal actions in a court case
12
4.8
A formal set of actions in court that a judge uses to decide a dispute
3
6.3
A court process to decide people's rights and duties
Antonyms
Compounds
- Formal
12
4.8
A formal set of actions in court that a judge uses to decide a dispute
How Formal
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word proceeding comes from pro- 'forward' and -ceed 'go', the same idea as the everyday verb proceed. So a legal proceeding is the steps that move 'forward' in court to decide a case.