Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural That which comes forth or results; effect; yield; issue; product; sum accruing from a sale, etc.
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- noun
Revenue ;gross revenue. - noun
Profits ;net revenue. - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
proceed .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property
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Examples
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For example, all but about $3 million of the $12 million in proceeds from the sale of the Stanford building in Houston will go to pay off the mortgage, as well as default interest on it, according to Kevin Sadler, an attorney for the receiver.
Selling a 'Fraud' Portfolio Maura Webber Sadovi 2010
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The year-earlier figure reflected 89.5 billion yen in proceeds from the sale of shares, mainly those of factory-automation systems maker, Fanuc Ltd.
Fujitsu Profit Falls 76% Juro Osawa 2010
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The title proceeds, appointing him for such time as may be the pleasure of his Majesty and of the said governor in his royal name; and the latter assigns him an annual salary of one thousand pesos of common gold, to be paid from the royal treasury in accordance with the resolution made at the preceding meeting of the treasury on September
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[230] The title proceeds: _Seu duae mediae proportionales inter extremas datas per circulum et per infinitas hyperbolas, vel ellipses et per quamlibet exhibitae_ ....
A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II) Augustus De Morgan 1838
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The fundamental principle by which education proceeds is collaboration.
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Thor & More is self-published by the author's widow, Christine Reed, who is donating proceeds from the book to a college scholarship fund in her husband's name at the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point.
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All proceeds from the Wind Tunnel Dreams book (if there are any - so far it's all going to the printing costs) go towards Explo, of course.
Thor's Day intelligentrix 2009
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Thor & More is self-published by the author's widow, Christine Reed, who is donating proceeds from the book to a college scholarship fund in her husband's name at the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point.
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Just two weeks before IndyMac Bank failed, Cheryl Hodgson sold her house, temporarily parked $360,000 in proceeds in a nearby branch and rented an apartment while searching for a new home.
For Ms. Hodgson, A New, Poorer, Start Robin Sidel 2010
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This effect proceeds from the display of those parts of nature which attract, and the concealment of those which repel the imagination: but religion must be shown as it is; suppression and addition equally corrupt it; and such as it is, it is known already.
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