noun
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the arrival or entry of many people or things
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the act of flowing in; inflow
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the mouth of a stream or river
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of influx
1620–30; < New Latin or Medieval Latin influxus, verbal noun of Latin influere to flow in. See in- 2, flux
Explanation
If there is a forceful flowing inward or coming in, you can say there is an influx. Every fall, the college town sees an influx of students and the population jumps 30 percent. Although anything flowing inward can be called an influx, there are several things this word is commonly used to refer to: water, people, and cash. The dam burst, causing an influx of water to the already swollen river. You just managed to avoid the influx of people mobbing the store looking to be the first to buy the newest gaming system. Try to avoid a financial plan like this: once you win the lottery, you'll use the influx of cash to pay off debts.
Vocabulary lists containing influx
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Example Sentences
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It is also spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to boost its infrastructure, including adding parking spots, to prepare for the influx of passengers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
Other European automakers are openly worried about the influx of new rivals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
A June 17 fire at cold storage operator Lineage’s 500,000-square-foot food warehouse left neighbors dealing with noxious smoke and an influx of rats and flies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026
Transport for Wales said it intends to put extra services on to deal with the influx of fans, as hotel prices for that weekend sky rocket due to increased demand.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
Their argument had been carrying on for days, until the house was too preoccupied with the influx of new people into its rooms to pay attention.
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
Those disparate visions — along with crucial endorsements and influxes of cash — helped the pair define clear brands and constituencies going into the primary.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026
It put their number at two million in 2025, due to influxes from Sudan, South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
From Barron's ● Jan. 15, 2026
Threads initially benefited from some clear advantages: default compatibility with Instagram, server capacity to handle mass influxes, and enthusiasm among users and advertisers for a friendly microblogging platform not owned by Elon Musk.
From Slate ● Jan. 16, 2025
As the chief of the Del Rio division, Mr. Owens focused much of his time on preparing for and responding to these kinds of influxes.
From New York Times ● Jun. 9, 2023
Perhaps the poetic temperament is more liable to such morbid biases, influxes of imaginative crotchet, and mere folly that cannot be cured?
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 05 by Thomas Carlyle
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