The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word PROCEEDS
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result PROCEEDS
- Carries on making profit
- Advances money made in a transaction
- Money made by professional joining top players in audition
- Starts to make profits
- Advances total sums
- Goes on about drugs during reminder to son
- Starts wanting cash from sale
- Goes on making money from enterprise
- Goes on to make money
- Goes // to get winnings
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What does PROCEEDS mean?
PROCEEDS verb- To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to carry on
- To pass from one point, topic, or stage, to another.
- To come from; to have as its source or origin.
- To go on in an orderly or regulated manner; to begin and carry on a series of acts or measures; to act methodically
- To be transacted; to take place; to occur.
- (of a rule) To be applicable or effective; to be valid.
- To begin and carry on a legal process.
- To take an academic degree.
- Revenue; gross revenue.
- Profit; net revenue.