proceeding
n. C / Un. an official action or a series of events in a court of law. It can also mean the formal record of what happened at a meeting.
n. a formal legal action or a sequence of events in a court of law; also refers to the published record of a meeting or conference.
The legal proceeding lasted for several months.
The judge decided to delay the proceeding until the defense lawyer could find the missing witness.
While the initial proceeding focused on procedural errors, the subsequent appeal addressed the substantive constitutional questions that had been ignored during the first trial.
By surface analysis, proceed + -ing.
Commonly used in the plural ('proceedings') when referring to a series of legal events or the records of a meeting.
The proceeding against him were long.The proceedings against him were long.When referring to a legal case as a whole, the plural form 'proceedings' is standard and requires a plural verb.