Definition of Knock-on effect

1. Noun. A secondary or incidental effect.


Definition of Knock-on effect

1. Noun. (U.K.) The continued running of an engine after the ignition has been turned off; dieseling. ¹

2. Noun. (British) A secondary, often unintended effect. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Knock-on Effect

knobsticks
knock
knock-about
knock-down(a)
knock-down-and-drag-out
knock-for-knock agreement
knock-knee
knock-kneed
knock-knees
knock-knock
knock-knock joke
knock-knock jokes
knock-off
knock-on
knock-on effect (current term)
knock-on effects
knock-ons
knock-out
knock-out drops
knock-up
knock Anthony
knock about
knock abouts
knock against
knock around
knock back
knock box

Literary usage of Knock-on effect

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Reflections on School Integration: Colloquium Proceedings by Mokubung O. Nkomo, Carolyn McKinney, Linda Chisholm (2004)
"This knock-on effect can also be attributed to other former departments, especially the former HOD schools. ..."

2. Measuring Innovation in OECD and Non-OECD Countries: Selected Seminar Papers by William Blankley (2006)
"... and this brings about a vicious spiral of high company mortality rate (with a knock-on effect on employment levels), lowers average productivity rates ..."

3. Report of the Hundred and Twenty Fifth Round Table on Transport Economics by ECMT Staff, Evropská konference ministrů dopravy, Transport Research Centre, SourceOECD (Online service), Economic Research Centre (2004)
"The limited productivity of terminals has a knock-on effect on the profitability of haulage legs. With regard to the concentration of movements within ..."

4. Lifelong Learning for All: Meeting of the Education Committee at Ministerial by Albert Tuijnman (1996)
"As was mentioned in Section B, this long-term decline in birth rates has a knock-on effect on the rate of renewal of labour force qualifications, ..."

5. Report of the Hundred and Fourth Round Table on Transport Economics Held in by ECMT Staff, (Paris) European Conference of Ministers, Economic Research Centre (1997)
"The poles might run into severe difficulties which would have a knock-on effect on the firms which have set up in them: higher access costs and slower, ..."

6. Deracialisation and Migration of Learners in South African Schools by Patience Sekete, Mmamajoro Shilubane, Badiri Moila (2001)
"The knock on effect is that learners from informal settlements fill the gap created by learners who leave township schools for suburban schools. ..."

7. Organic Agriculture: Sustainability, Markets, and Policies by OECD (2003)
"Management methods which are beneficial for plant diversity within farming systems may have a knock-on effect for many groups and species of invertebrates, ..."

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