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# outflow

«outflow» in Mova's school dictionary: **Water, air or another substance flowing out of a place** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (an outflow, outflows; also uncountable); verb (outflow — rare)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Water, air or another substance flowing out of a place. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outflow/#m1)

2) (money) Money going out of a bank, business or country. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outflow/#m2)

3) The place or pipe where something flows out. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outflow/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Used in geography (the outflow of a lake into a river), science (outflow of air from a storm), money and maths (cash inflow and outflow, money coming in and going out) and in news about people leaving a country. In maths problems, outflow is the amount going out, taken away from the total.

### examples

- The river is the outflow from the lake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outflow/#x1)
- The outflow pipe takes the dirty water away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outflow/#x2)
- A cold outflow of air came from the thunderstorm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outflow/#x3)
- The bakery's money outflow was bigger than its money coming in. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outflow/#x4)
- The country saw a large outflow of workers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outflow/#x5)
- If 50 litres flow in and the outflow is 20 litres, 30 litres remain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outflow/#x6)

### note

Countable or uncountable. Opposite: "inflow". In maths: total change = inflow − outflow. One word, no hyphen.

### In the corpora

- [Thou shalt not delay to offer of the fulness of thy harvest, and of the outflow of thy presses.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.644/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «outflow» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outflow/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.