- proceed
- ♦♦♦proceeds, proceeding, proceeded(The verb is pronounced [[t]prəsi͟ːd[/t]]. The plural noun in meaning 5 is pronounced [[t]pro͟ʊsiːdz[/t]].)1) VERB If you proceed to do something, you do it, often after doing something else first.
[V to-inf] He proceeded to tell me of my birth...
[V to-inf] He asked for ice for his whiskey and proceeded to get contentedly drunk.
2) VERB If you proceed with a course of action, you continue with it. [FORMAL][V with n] The group proceeded with a march they knew would lead to bloodshed...
The trial has been delayed until November because the defence is not ready to proceed.
Syn:3) VERB If an activity, process, or event proceeds, it goes on and does not stop.The ideas were not new. Their development had proceeded steadily since the war...
Efforts to reform the Interior Ministry have not yet proceeded very far.
4) VERB If you proceed in a particular direction, you go in that direction. [FORMAL][V prep/adv] She climbed the steps and proceeded along the upstairs hallway...
The freighter was allowed to proceed after satisfying them that it was not breaking sanctions.
Syn:5) N-PLURAL: the N, oft the N of/from n The proceeds of an event or activity are the money that has been obtained from it.The proceeds of the arms sales were then funneled to Contra fighters in Central America...
The proceeds from the concert will go towards famine relief.
English dictionary. 2008.
