outcome

[ out-kuhm ]
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noun
  1. a final product or end result; consequence; issue.

  2. a conclusion reached through a process of logical thinking.

Origin of outcome

1
First recorded in 1175–1225, outcome is from the Middle English word utcume.See out-, come

synonym study For outcome

1, 2. See end1.

Words Nearby outcome

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How to use outcome in a sentence

  • The poverty of earlier days was the outcome of the insufficiency of human labor to meet the primal needs of human kind.

  • The vision itself is an outcome of that divine discontent which raises man above his environment.

  • This, thought I, is a dismal-looking outcome—two men and a dead horse left high and dry on the sun-flooded prairie.

    Raw Gold | Bertrand W. Sinclair
  • The outcome of the wrangle was a purely personal accommodation of an essentially momentary character.

    King Robert the Bruce | A. F. Murison
  • They had awaited the outcome of the Sands-Chester transaction rather from curiosity than any doubt as to the result.

    Dorothy at Skyrie | Evelyn Raymond

British Dictionary definitions for outcome

outcome

/ (ˈaʊtˌkʌm) /


noun
  1. something that follows from an action, dispute, situation, etc; result; consequence

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