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knock-on
adjective
- resulting inevitably but indirectly from another event or circumstance
the works closed with the direct loss of 3000 jobs and many more from the knock-on effect on the area
noun
- rugby the infringement of playing the ball forward with the hand or arm
verb
- rugby to play (the ball) forward with the hand or arm
Example Sentences
This will have a knock-on effect on prices, and recruitment, said Mark Slade, its managing director.
With the creative industries generating £50bn a year for London's economy, the lockdowns had much wider knock-on effects across the city.
Changes to Pip do nevertheless have a knock-on effect for the Holyrood budget, as the money Scotland receives from the Treasury to administer such benefits is linked to UK government spending on equivalent welfare south of the border.
"The more I'm worrying 'is this going to happen to me?' the more it's having a knock-on effect at night with my sleep because my brain just won't switch off," said Ms Brown, who uses her Pip to get help to clean the house, go out to support groups, and to see friends at theatre groups.
"I think if you can get onto your airline, discuss it with them, whether you can maybe move to one of the other airports in London because it seems very likely that the knock-on impact will carry on for a number of days on this," he said.
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