influx

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The definition of an influx is an inflow or the arrival of large amounts of people or things.

When twenty people arrive at your house all at the same time, this is an example of an influx.

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influx

1. a flowing in; inflow, as of a liquid, gas, etc.
2. a continual coming in of persons or things: an influx of customers
the point where a body of water, as a river, joins another body of water

Origin of influx

French from Late Latin influxus from past participle of Classical Latin influere: see influence

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influx

noun

A flowing in: an influx of foreign capital.
A mass arrival or incoming: an influx of visitors to the city; large influxes of refugees.

Origin of influx

Late Latin īnflūxus from Latin past participle of īnfluere to flow in ; see influence .

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influx

Noun

(countable and uncountable, plural influxes)

A flow inward or into something.
I'll buy a new computer when I get an influx of cash.

Origin

From Latin īnfluxus (“inflow; influence”), from īnfluō (“flow or run into”).

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The influx of winter visitors adds to the wealth of the city.
During the 18th century there was a great influx of English colonists, and in 1714 the first English church was erected.
In recent years there has been a great influx of Poles into these parts, attracted by the higher wages.
Previously to the meeting of the conference there had been a great deal of discussion in regard to the influx of Chinese, and such influx was on all sides agreed to be a growing danger.
WITTENBERGE, a town of Germany, in the Prussian province of Brandenburg, on the Elbe, near the influx of the Stepenitz into that river, 77 m.

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