Synonyms for downstream
ˈdaʊnˈstrimdown·stream

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1. downstreamadverb

   Antonyms:
   upstream

2. downstreamadjective

   Lower down, in relation to a river or stream

   She lives downstream from the dam.

   Antonyms:
   upstream

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1. downstreamadverb

   in the direction of a stream's current

   Antonyms:
   upstream, upriver

2. downriver, downstreamadverb

   away from the source or with the current

   Synonyms:
   downriver

   Antonyms:
   upstream, upriver

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1. List of paraphrases for "downstream":

   downwind, descending, downriver, upstream, end-of-pipe, below, downward, endorsement, distal

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1. Wouter Buytaert:

   While glacier meltwater propagates downstream, it mixes with water from other sources such as direct rainfall, wetlands, and groundwater, up to a point where the impact of glacier melting may become negligible.

2. Carl Melford:

   After a fire, depending on the intensity of the burn, it causes the soil to be hydrophobic. The majority of this burn was a moderate severity burn, so that does cause hydrophobic soil and then also after the fire, there's a lot of debris and that tends to be a lot of the problem when that's moving downstream.

3. Seiichi Murayama:

   We want to keep our unique and broad supply chain from upstream to downstream, but we can't make hundreds of billions of yen of investment now in copper mines where development cost is expected to increase even further.

4. Laura Merrill:

   I think it is the elephant in the boardroom, really, it's about $500 billion (in subsidies) downstream to consumers and about $100 billion (in subsidies) upstream to producers. That's a huge amount of financing.

5. David Roth:

   All that backed-up water is eventually going downstream.