進行

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 進行, read しんこう, names the progress of an activity or the act of conducting it.
• Basic usage: It is used for conducting a meeting or describing the progress of construction.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• The person conducting a meeting
  • In 司会者が予定どおり会議を進行した, the moderator conducted the meeting. The agent differs from a sentence saying the meeting simply proceeded.
• The process itself
  • 工事の進行が遅れている describes construction progress being delayed. This part does not specify who is causing the delay.