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Money leaving the building faster than it arrived, with none of the fanfare.
means The amount of something — water, money, people — that flows out of a place over a given time.
from A plain compound of 'out' plus 'flow,' built in English from native Old English roots (ut and flowan). No hidden story here — it's as literal as compounds get, first used for rivers and currents before finance borrowed it for cash leaving an account or a fund.
- finance use
- Cash or investors exiting a fund or country
- opposite
- Inflow, the one everyone actually likes
- warning sign
- Sustained outflows often predate a crisis, not cause it
- physical origin
- Originally just water or air leaving a system