Meanings

exchange (e.g. cultural)

personnel shuffle

confluence (of rivers)

international exchange

streamlet

three-phase alternating current

third-rate

tributary

one's own style

(the) mainstream

main faction

to ward off (e.g. an attack)

flowing around

to write off

woman (writer, artist, aviator, etc.)

upper air currents

ascending air current

upper stream

upper classes

diversion into illegal channels