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View synonyms for outcome

outcome

[ out-kuhm ]

noun

  1. a final product or end result; consequence; issue.
  2. a conclusion reached through a process of logical thinking.


outcome

/ ˈaʊtˌkʌm /

noun

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


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Word History and Origins

Origin of outcome1

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

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Synonym Study

See end 1.

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Example Sentences

Cassandra, whose hair has already begun to fall out from her court-mandated chemotherapy, could face a similar outcome.

The possibility that the same outcome could happen another way -- namely a guy asks me out -- keeps me from taking action.

In Rome, he writes, the chicken “predicted the outcome of battles.”

We stand by our filmmakers and their right to free expression and are extremely disappointed by this outcome.

The outcome of the rum feud is critical for both Bacardi and Pernod Ricard, because the winner could net billions in future sales.

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.

The outcome of the wrangle was a purely personal accommodation of an essentially momentary character.

They had awaited the outcome of the Sands-Chester transaction rather from curiosity than any doubt as to the result.

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