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noun

proceedings

(law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked

In a sentence

Six example sentences with proceedings, each labelled with its topic.

  • The proceedings opened with three hours of motions before either side called a single witness.

    Law

  • Bankruptcy proceedings ran for eleven months, and creditors were paid only after the court approved the final schedule.

    Business

  • Newspapers printed the proceedings in full, so readers followed each day of the trial from the transcript itself.

    History

  • The impeachment proceedings ran for six weeks, and the final vote came late on a Friday night.

    Politics

  • Creditors opened insolvency proceedings against the lender, and the court froze its accounts that same afternoon.

    Finance

  • In Bleak House the proceedings in Chancery outlast every claimant, which was exactly the point Dickens wanted to make.

    Literature

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