knock-on effect
2
4.7
- noun
- UK
:
efecto dominó
- The closure of the factory caused a knock-on effect on local businesses that relied on its supply chain.
Now this will have a knock on effect on some of the accounts.
- Now this will have a knock on effect on some of the accounts.
- Now that that may have horrendous knock on effects.
- If Evergrand defaults on these debts, there could be all sorts of knock on effects too.
- But truly, when somebody's spirit breaks, there's going to be a biological knock on effect.
- But if he did that, it might have all sorts of other knock on effects.
- I assume they'd need to start pulling some money out of the economy without it causing any sort of secondary knock on effect.
- You're looking for that thing that you can do first, that if you do that, that's going to have the biggest knock on effect in terms of making other things easier.
- And the pandemic's done that and it's had a huge knock on effect of people's mind health.
- It's like, no, you can also do the thing that feels good without tripling down on every like sort of knock on effect that that would have more negative impacts.
Examples
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Faltering growth in Germany will have knock-on effects on the rest of the euro zone, which has relied on its core economies, Germany and France, for growth while the high-debt nations such as Greece, Portugal, and Spain are weighed down by austerity programs aimed at overcoming their debt problems.
Blog text (25) -
And you've seen America's reputation on the world stage collapse since Afghanistan and we've just discussed some of the knock on effects from that.
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Now this will have a knock on effect on some of the accounts.
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And that had huge knock-on effects around the system.
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College rugby has also seen a knock-on effect.
Blog text (17) -
And the pandemic's done that and it's had a huge knock on effect of people's mind health.
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A company like ours who services them, you suffer a knock-on effect.
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What matters is whether a collapse has knock-on effects, particularly for the banking system more generally.
Academic text (2007) -
All of this has a knock-on effect on the vulnerable coastlines.
Blog text (33) -
She starts with a conventional look at how many jobs the Recovery Act created, as well as the knock-on effects.
Blog text (32)
Synonyms
∞
3.1
A strong effect on people, places, or things
13
8.3
A side effect of an action on people who are not involved, often harmful or helpful
9
4.0
A chain of events in which one event causes the next to happen
8
5.8
An indirect effect that helps other businesses or areas beyond the original activity
3
6.8
An effect that continues after an earlier action and affects others
The continuing effects after a big event that often cause problems
How Strong
- Specialized
1
4.1
9
4.0
- UK
2
4.7
874
4.1
49
2.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
knock-on + effect
The meaning is partly derivable: knowing 'knock' (an impact) and 'effect' (a resulting change) allows learners to infer a resulting or carried-on impact, so there is a clear compositional cue. However, 'knock-on' as a lexicalized modifier meaning 'indirect, cascading' is somewhat conventionalized and may not be fully predictable to a B1 learner without prior exposure, so the item is only partially transparent.
Etymology
The noun knock-on effect comes from the image of one knock hitting something and passing the movement on to the next thing, like one falling object hitting the next. So it means 'a result that happens later because of something else'.