outbound
- adjective
- /ˈaʊtˌbaʊnd/
- And I've got middle seats both outbound and return because that's all that was available.
So it's inbound or outbound migration.
- So it's inbound or outbound migration.
- This whole time we had to refer to the aid stations as outbound, outbound, outbound, and this is our first inbound.
- So, So what happens is these guys are on this particular team, they're making outbound calls.
- So our outbound calls went up almost four times, double to four times on any given day.
- Those are the people that you need to put on the outbound train to somewhere way away from where you are because they don't help.
- And then I've pretty much abandoned, you know, affiliates outbound, anything like that.
- Check in all those texts outbound for myself.
- Not to say there aren't great little cities inside of Illinois that might be growing, but generally that's not good when you have that those kinds of outbound numbers.
- Yes, outbound, sort of outward complaining, but complaining in your own mind, of course thoughts count because you know what you complain about the most?
Examples
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Due to electrical storms, all outbound flights are canceled.
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I would start by putting country music on all US outbound flights.
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It's great I was able to sit in an outbound train in the morning.
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We 'll catch an outbound boat.
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Outbound flights will resume shortly.
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Traffic on the streets was light by then and had shrunk to only an occasional car outbound from town.
Fiction book (1991) -
We are getting reports of huge traffic jams at the outbound entrances, bridges, and tunnels.
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Operation Buckstop, initiated by the U.S. Customs Service, seized more than $171 million in outbound currency between 1989 and 1992.
Academic text (1994) -
Due to electrical storms, all outbound flights are canceled.
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We had missed the last outbound train by a quarter of an hour.
Synonyms
Going away from a place, usually at the start of a journey
Going away from a place, like a ship or train starting its journey
To move away from the center, for example when something spins or turns
About to leave a place or just left it
Antonyms
How Close
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Outbound comes from the simple parts out meaning 'away from' and bound meaning 'headed for', as in homebound or the phrase 'bound for London'. So outbound means 'going away from' a place, especially from the origin or center.