PROCEEDS

return, issue, take, takings, proceeds, yield, payoff

(noun) the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property; “the average return was about 5%”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Noun

proceeds pl (plural only)

Revenue; gross revenue.

Profits; net revenue.

Verb

proceeds

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of proceed

Anagrams

• precodes, rescoped

Source: Wiktionary

Pro"ceeds, n. pl.

Definition: That which comes forth or results; effect; yield; issue; product; sum accruing from a sale, etc.

PROCEED

Pro*ceed" v. i. [imp. & p. p. Proceeded; p. pr. & vb. n. Proceeding.] Etym: [F. procéder. fr. L. procedere, processum, to go before, to proceed; pro forward + cedere to move. See Cede.]

1. To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to continue or renew motion begun; as, to proceed on a journey. If thou proceed in this thy insolence. Shak.

2. To pass from one point, topic, or stage, to another; as, to proceed with a story or argument.

3. To issue or come forth as from a source or origin; to come from; as, light proceeds from the sun. I proceeded forth and came from God. John viii. 42. It proceeds from policy, not love. Shak.

4. To go on in an orderly or regulated manner; to begin and carry on a series of acts or measures; to act by method; to prosecute a design. He that proceeds upon other principles in his inquiry. Locke.

5. To be transacted; to take place; to occur. [Obs.] He will, after his sour fashion, tell you What hath proceeded worthy note to-day. Shak.

6. To have application or effect; to operate. This rule only proceeds and takes place when a person can not of common law condemn another by his sentence. Ayliffe.

7. (Law)

Definition: To begin and carry on a legal process.

Syn.

– To advance; go on; continue; progress; issue; arise; emanate.

Pro"ceed n.

Definition: See Proceeds. [Obs.] Howell.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition