Proceedings meaning : 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. The course of procedure in the prosecution of an action at law. The published record of the actions of a society, or of things done at its meetings.