PROCEEDS

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does proceeds mean? 

• PROCEEDS (noun)
  The noun PROCEEDS has 1 sense:

1. the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property

  Familiarity information: PROCEEDS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROCEEDS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

issue; payoff; proceeds; return; take; takings; yield

Context example:

the average return was about 5%

Hypernyms ("proceeds" is a kind of...):

income (the financial gain (earned or unearned) accruing over a given period of time)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "proceeds"):

economic rent; rent (the return derived from cultivated land in excess of that derived from the poorest land cultivated under similar conditions)

payback (financial return or reward (especially returns equal to the initial investment))

 Context examples 

My narrative proceeds to Agnes, with a thankful love.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Normally, ligand-dependent signaling by Hedgehog (Hh) homologs proceeds through binding to the Patched receptor.

(Basal Cell Carcinoma Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

The process probably proceeds much more slowly on Titan than on Earth because, at 10 times Earth's distance from the sun, there is less energy to power erosive processes in the moon's atmosphere.

(Cassini Spies Titan's Tallest Peaks, NASA)

Histiocytes in the bone marrow, spleen or lymph nodes become activated to the point that phagocytosis proceeds unchecked.

(Hemophagocytic Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

Had he not struck a bargain with the doctor, he and his mutineers, deserted by the ship, must have been driven to subsist on clear water and the proceeds of their hunting.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The biogenesis of peroxisomes starts with the early peroxins PEX3, PEX16 and PEX19 and proceeds via several steps.

(Peroxisome Biogenesis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

These calcifying organisms will struggle to build and maintain their shells as acidification proceeds.

(Marine organisms in Southern Ocean will face shallower zone for life, National Science Foundation)

They salted the flesh, and the peasant went into the town and wanted to sell the skin there, so that he might buy a new calf with the proceeds.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Contented sounds saluted his ear, and when he heard the angry voice of a woman he knew it to be the anger that proceeds from a full stomach.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

So much, for the moment, for my two white companions, whose characters and limitations will be further exposed, as surely as my own, as this narrative proceeds.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)