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knock-on

adjective

  1. 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

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noun

  1. rugby the infringement of playing the ball forward with the hand or arm
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. rugby to play (the ball) forward with the hand or arm
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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A slowdown in both economies as a result of the trade conflict will have a knock-on negative effect on most other countries.

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Many people are affected by stock market falls - even if they don't invest in shares directly - because of the knock-on effect on pensions, jobs and interest rates.

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This will have a knock-on effect on prices, and recruitment, said Mark Slade, its managing director.

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With the creative industries generating £50bn a year for London's economy, the lockdowns had much wider knock-on effects across the city.

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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.

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