The verb is pronounced /prəsi:d/. The plural noun in meaning 5 is pronounced /proʊsi:dz/.
( proceeds proceeding, proceeded)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
If you proceed to do something, you do it, often after doing something else first.
He proceeded to tell me of my birth...
VERB : V to-inf
2.
If you proceed with a course of action, you continue with it. ( FORMAL )
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.
VERB : V with n , V
3.
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...
VERB : V
4.
If you proceed in a particular direction, you go in that direction. ( FORMAL )
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.
= continue
VERB : V prep / adv , V
5.
The proceeds of an event or activity are the money that has been obtained from it.
N-PLURAL : the N , oft the N of/from n