1 the flow from something:
2 the amount of money that leaves a company, industry, or country during a particular period :
the outflow of sth Currency devaluation triggered a rapid outflow of foreign funds.
Concerns over the group's cash outflow saw shares fall 8.5p yesterday to 248.25p.
Data shows that the net outflow from property funds, is around 3.6% of the total property funds under management.
The chart shows UK inflows and outflows compared with France, traditionally also a big investor.
an outflow of $4 billion/£350 million/17.5%, etc. Life assurance businesses have seen an outflow of £37m compared with positive income of £94m in the first half of the year.
large/massive/significant outflow Bond markets received a boost from the massive outflow of funds from "emerging markets" in the wake of the financial crisis.
3 the number of workers that leave a company, industry, or country:
It is recognized that this monocusp does not last for very long, in that it tends to adhere to the outflow patch.
There have been a limited number of attempts at solving the radial outflow problem, for the case of turbulent flow, by numerical means.
Reconstruction of the right ventricular outflow tract is, therefore, to be recommended as soon after palliation as is possible.
A discrete atrioventricular septum was seen, and there was no elongation of the outflow tract of the left ventricle.
Fibrous obstruction within the left ventricular outflow tract associated with ventricular septal defect: a pathologic study.
With this arrangement the flow in the outflow tank gave no visible upstream influence.
Eighty-eight patients underwent right or left ventricular outflow tract reconstruction.
The outflow of international reserves was already prominent in the second quarter of 1991.
