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means A formal action or step taken as part of an official process, especially a legal one — and, in the plural, the recorded minutes or transactions of a meeting or trial.

from From 'proceed,' which traces through French 'procéder' back to Latin 'procedere' — 'pro-' (forward) plus 'cedere' (to go, to yield). So at its root it just means 'to go forward.' The word picked up its stiff, official air as it got adopted into legal and parliamentary English, where 'proceedings' became the stately word for whatever grinding, step-by-step business a court or committee was grinding through.