knock-on effect

Other forms: knock-on effects

Definitions of knock-on effect
  1. noun
    a secondary or incidental effect
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    type of:
    consequence, effect, event, issue, outcome, result, upshot
    a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon
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