outcome

[Out·come]

The result of something, or the consequence of it, is the outcome. If your oldest child announces that your youngest child has climbed onto the roof with a handmade set of wings, you should probably not expect a good outcome. Better run!

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That which comes out of, or follows from, something else; issue; result; consequence; upshot.

Noun
something that results; "he listened for the results on the radio"

Noun
a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon; "the magnetic effect was greater when the rod was lengthwise"; "his decision had depressing consequences for business"; "he acted very wise after the event"


n.
That which comes out of, or follows from, something else; issue; result; consequence; upshot.


Outcome

Out"come , n. That which comes out of, or follows from, something else; issue; result; consequence; upshot. "The logical outcome." H. Spenser.
All true literature, all genuine poetry, is the direct outcome, the condensed essence, of actual life and thougth.

That which comes out of, or follows from, something else; issue; result; consequence; upshot.

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Usage Examples

It's amazing that this is still news to people, but that affects the final outcome of the film. When people are treated well, and they're made to feel valued, they give 110 percent.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.

Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It's the outcome of life.

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

For me, the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organization.

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

If governments let themselves be fully bound by the decisions of their parliaments without protecting their own freedom to act, a breakup of Europe would be a more probable outcome than deeper integration.

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Other Usage Examples

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

I think essentially the meaning of life is probably the journey and not really any one thing or an outcome or a result. I think it's kinda the process and I think that if you can find happiness in the process then maybe that's it.

Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.

The question of religion was a matter for each individual's conscience, and in a great many cases was the outcome of birth or residence in a certain geographical area.

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.

Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.

The skirmishes in the occupied land are part of the war of destiny. The outcome of hundreds of years of war will be defined in Palestinian land.

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