influx
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /ˈɪnˌflʌks/
Noun

influx

  1. A flow inward or into something; a coming in.
    Synonyms: infusion, intromission, introduction, importation
    I'll buy a new computer when I get an influx of cash.
    • the general influx of Greek into modern languages
  2. That which flows or comes in.
    • 18, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 17, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify ), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, OCLC 1069526323 ↗:
  3. (obsolete) influence; power.
    • In this sense it is now not used. Adam, in innocence, might have held, by the continued influx of the divine will and power, a state of immortality.
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