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Definition of "outbound" []

  • Outward bound; headed away: outbound trains. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "outbound" in a sentence
  • ""The U.S. was once the most important market in Japanese outbound cross-boarder deals, but now [buying a U.S. firm] is just one of many options given that the importance of the emerging countries has enormously increased" said"
  • "Service seems great, the primary problem I see is that when I call outbound from say my cell phone, the receiver of the call is going to see my actual cell phone number."
  • "Only when placed in the more accurate and to-scale map of the city do the terms outbound and inbound make sense in context of the peninsula that is San Francisco."