Proceeding meaning : To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to carry on To pass from one point, topic, or stage, to another. To come from; to have as its source or origin. To go on in an orderly or regulated manner; to begin and carry on a series of acts or measures; to act methodically To be transacted; to take place; to occur. (of a rule) To be applicable or effective; to be valid. To begin and carry on a legal process. To take an academic degree. The act of one who proceeds, or who prosecutes a design or transaction An event or happening; something that happens (always in plural) A published collection of papers presented at an academic conference, or representing the acts of a learned society. Progress or movement from one thing to another. A measure or step taken in a course of business; a transaction Any legal action, especially one that is not a lawsuit.