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to address the fallout

to address the fallout

6.8
To deal with the bad results of an event
  • phrasal verb
translation icon : abordar las consecuencias
  • After the scandal, the company held a press conference to address the fallout.

Examples

  • It took months for the city officials to address the fallout from the budget cuts.

  • The manager had to address the fallout of the decision with the staff.

  • We need to address the fallout from the recent scandal.

  • Have you addressed the fallout from the meeting?

  • The government held a press conference to address the fallout from the environmental disaster and outline their response.

  • After the scandal broke, the CEO met with the board to address the fallout and discuss the company's future.

  • The school is implementing new policies to address the fallout from the bullying incidents reported last year.

Antonyms

to dismiss
332 3.0

To refuse to accept an idea or claim

to bury one's head in the sand
  • Informal
5 7.7

To ignore a problem instead of dealing with it

How Serious

to reap what you sow
  • Informal
8 6.0
to address the fallout
6.8
to step on a rake
  • Informal
8.6
to slip up
  • Informal
27 4.1

Surface Forms

address the fallout infinitive
addressed the fallout past
addressed the fallout past participle
addressing the fallout present participle
addresses the fallout third person singular

Morphology

address + the + fallout

The meaning 'to respond to or manage the negative consequences' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'address' (to treat or deal with) and 'fallout' (harmful or problematic result). This is a straightforward compositional collocation rather than an idiom (the determiner 'the' is irrelevant), and similar constructions exist cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents would readily infer the meaning.

Etymology

Address the fallout comes from the image of ash or dust falling after an explosion. To address that fallout is to clean up the mess, so today the phrase means 'to deal with the negative results'.