proceeds

/ ˈprəʊsiːdz /

plural noun

1. the profit or return derived from a commercial transaction, investment, etc

2. the result, esp the revenue or total sum, accruing from some undertaking or course of action, as in commerce

Example Sentences

The proceeds will “go directly to families undergoing cancer treatment,” according to his website.

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Some of their stock prices have traded above the value of the tokens they hold, giving the companies the chance to issue more shares and use those proceeds to buy more of the cryptocurrency.

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Even the flagship policy from COP30, the Tropical Forest Forever Facility, aimed to mix sovereign-wealth money and private capital, and use the proceeds to protect rainforests.

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This leads to a subsequent year in which Chandler shows appreciation for a newly thin Monica, who proceeds to punish him for the previous remark.

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Our reviewer, Steven Poole, wrote that “the book proceeds like a convoluted murder mystery, introducing one suspect after another in what seems like an open-and-shut case, before puncturing the promising narrative with an inconvenient fact.”

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Related Words

• income 
• profit 
• revenue 
• reward