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
proceeds pl (plural only)
Revenue; gross revenue.
Profits; net revenue.
proceeds
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of proceed
• 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.
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
18 January 2025
(noun) (Yiddish) a little; a piece; “give him a shtik cake”; “he’s a shtik crazy”; “he played a shtik Beethoven”
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
