débouché

noun

An exit or outlet.

OriginFrench débouché →
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Meanings

noundébouché (plural débouchés)

plural débouchés

  1. archaicAn exit or outlet.
  2. archaicbroadlyA market for goods.

    The débouchés were ordered widened to afford easy egress.

    1886, Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant

Origin

  1. Frenchdébouché
  2. Englishdébouché

Borrowed from French débouché.

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APA

débouché. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/d%C3%A9bouch%C3%A9

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Chicago

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