Antonyms 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

   Antonyms:
   upstream, upriver

   Synonyms:
   downriver

How to use downstream in a sentence?

1. Energy Minister Charles Keter:

   We are telling people who are downstream, Garissa all the way to Tana River - things are worsening, we are asking them to move. Let them not wait for water, because this is historical.

2. Mike Davis:

   More product trading is becoming more long-haul and this can be seen via National Oil Companies (NOCs) trying to build up downstream operations to produce clean refined products, by diversifying from just exporting crude, NOCs are developing their operations and institutions in China, India, Middle East and elsewhere to balance their assets and liability bases.

3. Jonathan Shafer:

   Park rangers found an injured hiker who had been pulled downstream several hundred yards.

4. Tianjin Port No. 5:

   This matter was caused completely by the illegal operations of the agent and a related downstream trader and the port company did not itself sign...or participate in any unauthorised cargo release, hence, the port company was not involved in any transgression. Furthermore, to protect its legal rights, the port company has already initiated legal proceedings.

5. Brett Whitin:

   We’re up approximately 7.5 million acre feet in California storage since last year at this time, so already a significant gain in water supply and this snowpack is going to benefit those reservoirs, as opposed to melt in the spring, but it will be a challenge to manage all this snowpack. I mean, there’s been record snow and a lot of these rivers have limited channel capacity downstream, so getting that water out safely is going to be a challenge.

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