outcome

outcome
outcome (n.) 1788, "that which results from something," originally Scottish, from OUT (Cf. out) + COME (Cf. come) (v.). Popularized in English by Carlyle (c.1830s). Used in M.E. in sense of "the act or fact of coming out" (c.1200).

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