Definition of "outflow" []

• The act or process of flowing out: watched the outflow of the tide. (noun)
• Something that flows out: an outflow of water from a power plant. (noun)
• The amount flowing out: a heavy outflow of cash from the country. (noun)
• To issue or stream out, in or as if in a flow: Too much money is outflowing from our household. (verb-intransitive)

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.

• "And now we have some what we call outflow boundaries, some air that was thrown out of thunderstorms, pushed to the ground and then we made a big gust of wind."
• "Then privatization has no effect on the solvency of the Trust Fund; it reduces inflow to the Trust Fund to the same degree it reduces outflow from the Trust Fund."
• "Jeffrey A. Miron and Kevin M. Murphy write, privatization has no effect on the solvency of the Trust Fund; it reduces inflow to the Trust Fund to the same degree it reduces outflow from the Trust Fund."