inflows
What enters reservoirs
Inflows are things flowing in—typically money, resources, or people entering a system.
The term appears most often in financial contexts: capital inflows, cash inflows, foreign investment inflows.
Rivers have inflows where tributaries enter.
The opposite is outflows.
Wealth used for investment
- revenueBusiness income total
- cashReady spending funds
- receiptsTransaction documentation
- remittancesPayments sent abroad
deposits · earnings · income · proceeds · payments · transfers · funds · investments
Continuous flows of something
- riversFlowing bodies of water
- tributariesStreams joining larger rivers
- runoffExcess water drainage
- drainageLiquid removal system
currents · freshwater · groundwater · aquifer · watershed · confluence · discharge · seepage
Those settling abroad
- migrantsPeople who move elsewhere
- refugeesPeople seeking safety elsewhere
- arrivalsThose who come
- newcomersThose recently arrived
expatriates · settlers · entrants · wave · surge · quota · resettlement · integration
Circulation of fresh air
- draftsPreliminary written versions
- currentsDirectional flows of movement
- circulationMovement through a system
- intakeAmount received or consumed
supply · ducts · vents · airways · airstreams · convection · breeze
capital
Wealth used for investment
remittances · deposits · earnings · income · proceeds · payments · transfers · funds · investments · contributions
streams
Continuous flows of something
- riversFlowing bodies of water
- tributariesStreams joining larger rivers
- runoffExcess water drainage
drainage · currents · freshwater · groundwater · aquifer · watershed · confluence · discharge · seepage · springs
immigrants
Those settling abroad
newcomers · expatriates · settlers · entrants · wave · surge · quota · resettlement · integration · naturalization
ventilation
Circulation of fresh air
- draftsPreliminary written versions
- currentsDirectional flows of movement
- circulationMovement through a system
intake · supply · ducts · vents · airways · airstreams · convection · breeze
traffic
Movement along routes
transmissions · feeds · streams · signals · inputs · downloads · bandwidth · throughput · telemetry · logs
- watershedsdrainage basin, drainage basins, river basin, river basins, catchment
- inflowsingress, intake, streams, tributaries, stream
- capital flowscapital flows, outflows, capital flight, hot money, FDI
- cash flowoutflows, cash balance, cash position, cash burn, cash budget
- treasuryUS Treasury, Treasury Department, treasury bonds, Exchequer, state treasury
inflowsoutflows
Streams moving away
outpourings · drainage · runoff · outpouring · discharges
inflowsoutflows
Streams moving away
capital flight · withdrawals · expenditures · disbursements · divestment