adjective

• (of a ship or passenger) going away from home or point of origin.

  ‘an outward-bound crude oil carrier’

  More example sentences

  • ‘After July 7, passport checks were set up at ports for all outward-bound passengers in order to ensure that terror suspects were not trying to flee the country so as to escape justice.’
  • ‘Hinkley thumped onto the deck of the nearest outward-bound ship.’