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Definition of inward bound in English: inward boundadjective 1(especially of a ship or passenger) coming into or towards a place. we saw the car ferry, inward bound from the islands of Tiree and Coll Example sentencesExamples - Having arrived about four in the afternoon, we saw a brigantine supposed to be inward bound from the West Indies.
- The outward bound Chaves had arrived the previous day with a cargo of fertilizer, whilst the inward bound ship, the Narwa, arrived with a load of cement from Barcelona.
- In 1910 she was run into by a foreign steamer below Gravesend, when inward bound from Langesund, and was towed ashore in a sinking condition.
- Inward bound, seafarers will be watching carefully to avoid areas where waves are breaking, and that the cross tide is not carrying their vessel towards The Shingles Bank.
- On 19 July, 1941 His Majesty's Submarine Umpire was cruising on the surface with a large inward-bound Allied convoy off the Norfolk coast.
- Our intermediate destination was a transit camp for troops leaving from Alexandria to other countries, and for inward bound troops also.
- We left Auckland for the last time on 9 April 1999, passing a car carrier inward bound.
- Inward bound from Balik Papan, Borneo, she went ashore in thick fog off Portsea back beach at 7 a.m.
2Denoting investment made in a country by investors outside that country. the programme is designed to stimulate inward-bound investment Example sentencesExamples - Drivers of demand include investor confidence, inward bound capital, jobs, the list goes on.
- Our aim is to achieve a more equitable trade balance and increase inward-bound trade and investment missions.
- He says a recent example of this phenomenon is South Africa's rules pertaining to inward-bound loans.
- The EU Accession countries suffered a fall in inward bound foreign investment during 2003.
- The Government's new rules were criticised by the New Zealand First leader as being an attack upon inward-bound investment by foreigners.
- The thin capitalisation rules will essentially look at the way outward-bound and inward-bound investment can be deducted.
Definition of inward bound in US English: inward boundadjective 1(especially of a ship or passenger) coming into or towards a place. we saw the car ferry, inward bound from the islands of Tiree and Coll Example sentencesExamples - Inward bound, seafarers will be watching carefully to avoid areas where waves are breaking, and that the cross tide is not carrying their vessel towards The Shingles Bank.
- Inward bound from Balik Papan, Borneo, she went ashore in thick fog off Portsea back beach at 7 a.m.
- Our intermediate destination was a transit camp for troops leaving from Alexandria to other countries, and for inward bound troops also.
- In 1910 she was run into by a foreign steamer below Gravesend, when inward bound from Langesund, and was towed ashore in a sinking condition.
- On 19 July, 1941 His Majesty's Submarine Umpire was cruising on the surface with a large inward-bound Allied convoy off the Norfolk coast.
- We left Auckland for the last time on 9 April 1999, passing a car carrier inward bound.
- Having arrived about four in the afternoon, we saw a brigantine supposed to be inward bound from the West Indies.
- The outward bound Chaves had arrived the previous day with a cargo of fertilizer, whilst the inward bound ship, the Narwa, arrived with a load of cement from Barcelona.
2Denoting investment made in a country by investors outside that country. the program is designed to stimulate inward bound investment Example sentencesExamples - The Government's new rules were criticised by the New Zealand First leader as being an attack upon inward-bound investment by foreigners.
- Our aim is to achieve a more equitable trade balance and increase inward-bound trade and investment missions.
- The thin capitalisation rules will essentially look at the way outward-bound and inward-bound investment can be deducted.
- Drivers of demand include investor confidence, inward bound capital, jobs, the list goes on.
- The EU Accession countries suffered a fall in inward bound foreign investment during 2003.
- He says a recent example of this phenomenon is South Africa's rules pertaining to inward-bound loans.
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