knock-on effect
a consequence or indirect effect
TRANSLATION
knock-on effect = der Dominoeffekt, die Nebenwirkung --- GOOGLE INDEX knock-on effect: approximately 950,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
As China's inflation soars, world fears KNOCK-ON EFFECTS
(AFP news service)
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Events beyond our control can also have a KNOCK-ON EFFECT on the movement of connecting passengers and baggage, most notably poor weather, as experienced across Europe at the start of 2009.
(The Daily Mail)
(AFP news service)
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Events beyond our control can also have a KNOCK-ON EFFECT on the movement of connecting passengers and baggage, most notably poor weather, as experienced across Europe at the start of 2009.
(The Daily Mail)
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knock-on effect
noun phrase
- when an event or situation has a knock-on effect, it indirectly causes other events or situations
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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WORD ORIGIN
A cartoon shows two businessmen looking out the window of an office building at a city skyline. While gazing at a fleet of flying saucers hovering over the city skyscrapers, one man says to the other: "You can't help but wonder what this will do to the stock market."
While poking fun at our focus on money and wealth, the cartoon also highlights an absurd example of knock-on effect. Also referred to as a domino effect, a knock-on effect is an event or situation that leads to other events or situations.
Many things that happen in the world have knock-on effects that we read about daily. A flu epidemic that affects tourism and travel or a government that offers tax breaks to solar energy users, which in turn helps spur growth in the industry. Other events are responsible for lesser-known knock-on effects. Take climate change for example. A lack of water in developing countries impacts women and girls living there because:
- Women tasked with fetching water have to walk three times farther to find it.
- They spend more time looking for water, meaning less time for a school education for young girls and less time for young women to take care of their families.
- Walking longer distances for water results in a higher risk of danger and disease.
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SMUGGLE OWAD INTO TODAY'S CONVERSATION:
"Who knows what the knock-on effects this government's actions will be."
noun phrase
- when an event or situation has a knock-on effect, it indirectly causes other events or situations
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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WORD ORIGIN
A cartoon shows two businessmen looking out the window of an office building at a city skyline. While gazing at a fleet of flying saucers hovering over the city skyscrapers, one man says to the other: "You can't help but wonder what this will do to the stock market."
While poking fun at our focus on money and wealth, the cartoon also highlights an absurd example of knock-on effect. Also referred to as a domino effect, a knock-on effect is an event or situation that leads to other events or situations.
Many things that happen in the world have knock-on effects that we read about daily. A flu epidemic that affects tourism and travel or a government that offers tax breaks to solar energy users, which in turn helps spur growth in the industry. Other events are responsible for lesser-known knock-on effects. Take climate change for example. A lack of water in developing countries impacts women and girls living there because:
- Women tasked with fetching water have to walk three times farther to find it.
- They spend more time looking for water, meaning less time for a school education for young girls and less time for young women to take care of their families.
- Walking longer distances for water results in a higher risk of danger and disease.
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SMUGGLE OWAD INTO TODAY'S CONVERSATION:
"Who knows what the knock-on effects this government's actions will be."
