incoming

Coming into a place or moving toward someone.

• She checks all incoming mail.
• The phone displays incoming calls on its screen.
• An incoming tide covered the rocks.

Similar words: arriving, inbound

Opposites: outgoing

Common phrases: incoming calls, incoming mail, incoming tide

About to begin a job or official position after someone else leaves it.

• The incoming director met the staff.
• An incoming government will face serious economic problems.
• The outgoing president welcomed the incoming president.

Similar words: new

Opposites: outgoing

Common phrases: incoming president, incoming government, incoming director

A shouted warning that something dangerous is coming toward you, especially enemy shells.

• 'Incoming!' he shouted.
• 'Incoming! Get down behind the wall!'
• Someone yelled 'Incoming!' as the shell approached.

Similar words: Look out!

Common phrases: incoming take cover, incoming get down

The act of entering or arriving somewhere.

• The guard recorded each incoming.
• A bell marked the incoming of the visitors.
• The ledger lists the incomings and outgoings of guests.

How to use it: incoming of someone/something (A bell announced the incoming of each guest.)

Similar words: arrival, entry

Opposites: departure

Common phrases: incoming of something, incoming and outgoing, each incoming

Shots or shells fired by the enemy toward your position.

• The incoming forced us into the bunker.
• Heavy incoming continued throughout the night.
• We heard incoming from the hills.

Similar words: enemy fire

Common phrases: heavy incoming, incoming from something, under incoming