Synonyms for proceeds

12 synonyms
1 meaning

noun

Most common

profit payoff returns

All synonyms

Noun

1. Produce — profit; net revenue

produce, yield, profit, return, take, revenue, income, product, harvest, payoff, issue

Other

returns

Definitions

n. 1
Profit; net revenue.
They will donate net proceeds—whatever money is left after they pay their expenses—from the show to charity.

Choose the right word

Proceeds, Return or Produce?

The word proceeds is chiefly used of the return from an investment: we speak of the produce of a farm, but of the proceeds of the money invested in farming.

J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)

Example sentences

profit Net-profit comes to 10 million dollars every year.
payoff You have time for payoff until the end of the month.
returns Tom always hugs his son when he returns from work.

Popularity over time

Word	1850 → 2019	Trend
proceeds		falling
profit		falling
payoff		rising
returns		steady

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

4 letters: take¹
5 letters: issue², yield¹
6 letters: return², income², profit², payoff²
7 letters: product², produce², revenue³, returns², harvest²

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (issue² = 2 syllables).