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Definition: Inbound |
InboundAdjective1. Directed or moving inward or toward a center; "the inbound train"; "inward flood of capital". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "inbound" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1913. (references) |
Synonyms: InboundSynonyms: arriving(a) (adj), inward (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Inbound |
| English words defined with "inbound": arriving ♦ inward. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "inbound": air-freight agent ♦ CARGO AGENT, customer service agent ♦ first stage switch, FLIGHT-INFORMATION EXPEDITER ♦ inbound matrix timing buses, inbound voice sample parity ♦ Master Inbond, matrix inbound subgroup ♦ signal-tower operator ♦ TOWER OPERATOR ♦ YARD MANAGER. (references) |
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 | Inbound to Hampton Roads, Virginia, from Brest, France, 1918. Credit: NAVY. |  | Trucks unloading at the inbound freight house of the Illinois Central Railroad, South Water Street freight terminal, Chicago, Ill. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Inbound tour operators receive partial payment at time of booking with total payment normally being received before the traveler arrives. (references) | |
Inbound as well as outbound travel and tourism services for travelers between the U.S. and Egypt represent tremendous opportunities for American firms. (references) | ||
Following MTP are LCP and BKP which handle mainly containerized cargo and respectively handle 14% and 13% of the total inbound and outbound cargo transported by sea in Thailand. (references) | ||
Economic History | Ukraine | In general, tourism services are divided into three categories in Ukraine: inbound, outbound, and domestic. (references) |
Ukraine | Almost 75+ACU- of all travel agents specialize in outbound tourism, some 20+ACU- in inbound servicing of foreign travelers, and 5+ACU- in domestic services for Ukrainians only. (references) | |
Peru | Inbound opportunities: In his first message, the newly elected president focused on promotion of the tourism sector as a key element to spur sustained growth and employment generation. (references) | |
Travel | Oman | Airport visas for a maximum two week stay are available to U.S. passport holders; however, there have been recent instances in which U.S. travelers to Oman without visas in their passports have been denied boarding by some airlines on inbound flights. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Inbound" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 91.43% of the time. "Inbound" is used about 35 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 91.43% | 32 | 61,292 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 5.71% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.86% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 35 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "inbound": inbound cargo ♦ inbound commuting ♦ inbound heading ♦ inbound matrix highways ♦ inbound matrix timing buses ♦ inbound PCM/DATA buses ♦ Inbound tourism ♦ inbound track ♦ inbound voice sample parity ♦ matrix inbound group ♦ matrix inbound subgroup. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "inbound"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i drejtuar përbrenda. (various references) | |
Chinese | 入站. (various references) | |
Danish | indgående-matrix timingbusser (inbound matrix timing buses), indadgående trafik (inbound traffic), indadgående turisme (Inbound tourism), indflyvningskurs (inbound heading), indgående kurs (inbound heading), indgående matrixbusser (inbound matrix highways), indgående matrix-TDM-busser (inbound matrix highways), indgående trafik (inbound traffic), indgaaende trafik (entering traffic, inbound traffic, inward traffic), indkoerselsspor (arrival siding, arrival track, inbound track, receiving track, reception siding, reception track), indkommende PCM-paritetsfejl (inbound voice sample parity), indstrålende trafik (inbound traffic), indstraalende trafik (entering traffic, inbound traffic, inward traffic), indgående PCM-busser (inbound PCM/DATA buses), pendling (commuter traffic, commuting, home to work travel, home-to-work traffic, hunting, inbound commuting, journey to and from work, oscillation), ankomstspor (arrival siding, arrival track, inbound track, receiving track, reception siding, reception track), matrixindgangsgruppe (matrix inbound group), matrixindgangssubgruppe (matrix inbound subgroup). (various references) | |
Dutch | inkomende matrix timingbus (inbound matrix timing buses), ingaand verkeer (entering traffic, inbound traffic, inward traffic), inkomend verkeer (entering traffic, inbound traffic, inward traffic), inkomende matrixhighways (inbound matrix highways), inkomende PCM/DATA buses (inbound PCM/DATA buses), inkomende voice sample parity (inbound voice sample parity), instromend verkeer (entering traffic, inbound traffic, inward traffic), inkomend toerisme (Inbound tourism), torensenverkeer de stad in (inbound commuting), matrix inbound group (matrix inbound group), aankomstspoor (arrival siding, arrival track, inbound track, receiving track, reception siding, reception track), matrix inbound subgroup (matrix inbound subgroup), binnenrijdend verkeer (entering traffic, inbound traffic, inward traffic), binnenkomend verkeer (entering traffic, inbound traffic, inward traffic), beroepsverkeer de stad in (inbound commuting), aanvliegkoers (inbound heading), aanvliegbaan (inbound heading). (various references) | |
Finnish | tuloraide (arrival siding, arrival track, inbound track, receiving track, reception siding, reception track), tulevien matriisien ajastusväylät (inbound matrix timing buses), sisäänlennon ohjaussuunta (inbound heading), saapuvien signaalien matriisiryhmä (matrix inbound group), saapuvien signaalien matriisialaryhmä (matrix inbound subgroup), saapuvan ääninäytteen pariteetti (inbound voice sample parity), saapuva liikenne (entering traffic, inbound traffic, inward traffic), pendeliliikenne keskustaan (inbound commuting), PCM-ja DATA-tuloväylät (inbound PCM/DATA buses), matriisituloväylät (inbound matrix highways). (various references) | |
French | relèvement d'arrivée (inbound bearing), bus d'entrée PCM-data (inbound PCM/DATA buses), cap de rapprochement (inbound heading), cap de retour (inbound heading), conférence import (inbound conference), détection d'erreurs de parité en entrée (inbound voice sample parity), bus de temporisation de la matrice de commutation entrante (inbound matrix timing buses), raccordement d'entrée de la matrice de commutation (inbound matrix highways), voie d'entrée (inbound track), sous-groupe d'entrée de la matrice de commutation (matrix inbound subgroup), tourisme récepteur (Inbound tourism), trafic à destination des lieux de travail (inbound commuting), trafic entrant (inbound traffic, inward traffic), voie d'arrivée (inbound track), voie de réception (inbound track), groupe d'entrée de la matrice de commutation (matrix inbound group). (various references) | |
German | ankommend (Telefon). (various references) | |
Greek | εισερχόμενοσ (entrant, incoming, ingoing). (various references) | |
Hungarian | part felé tartó, kikötõ felé tartó, kikötőbe befutó, kikötő felé tartó, beérkező (incoming). (various references) | |
Italian | turismo dall'esterno (Inbound tourism), traffico per lavoro radiocentrico (inbound commuting), traffico di entrata (entering traffic, inbound traffic, inward traffic), rotta di ritorno (inbound heading), binario di ricevimento (arrival siding, arrival track, inbound track, receiving track, reception siding, reception track), binario di arrivo (arrival siding, arrival track, inbound track, receiving track, reception siding, reception track), binario d'entrata (arrival siding, arrival track, inbound track, receiving track, reception siding, reception track), angolo di rotta di avvicinamento (inbound heading). (various references) | |
Korean | 본국행. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | inbounday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | que se dirige ao porto. (various references) | |
Russian | прибывающий (incoming). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | dolazeći. (various references) | |
Spanish | hacia el interior (inland), entrante (bight, close, entrant, following, future, incoming, ingoing, inlet, near, nearby, new, next, starter). (various references) | |
Swedish | inkommande trafik (entering traffic, inbound traffic, inward traffic), infartsspår (arrival siding, arrival track, inbound track, receiving track, reception siding, reception track), inåtgående pendling (inbound commuting), inåtgående pendeltrafik (inbound commuting). (various references) | |
Thai | ขาเข้า. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | що прибуває з плавання. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "inbound": inbounded, inbounding, inbounds. (additional references) | |
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"Inbound" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Enbourne, inbend, indound, inpound, winbond. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "inbound" (pronounced i'nbou"nd) |
| 5 | -n b ou" n d | unbound. |
| 4 | -b ou" n d | abound, bound, rebound. |
| 3 | -ou" n d | aground, around, astound, browned, confound, crowned, downed, drowned, expound, found, frowned, ground, hound, impound, mound, newfound, pound, profound, propound, redound, renowned, resound, round, sound, surround, ultrasound, unsound, unwound, wound. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-i-n-n-o-u" | |
-1 letter: bunion, unbind. | |
-2 letters: bound, unbid, union. | |
-3 letters: bind, bond, bund, bunn, nodi, noun, undo. | |
-4 letters: bid, bin, bio, bod, bud, bun, dib, din, don, dub, dui, dun, duo, inn, ion, nib, nob, nod, nub, nun, obi, oud, udo. | |
-5 letters: bi, bo, do, id, in, no, nu, od, on, un. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-d-i-n-n-o-u" | |
+1 letter: bounding, inbounds. | |
+2 letters: abounding, inbounded, ironbound, obtunding. | |
+3 letters: inbounding, rebounding, uncombined, undoubling, undoubting. | |
+4 letters: bludgeoning, nonbuilding, subdominant. | |
+5 letters: daunorubicin, dibenzofuran, dumbfounding, nonbuildings, subdominants. | |
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