SPILLOVER

spillover

(noun) (economics) any indirect effect of public expenditure

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

spillover (countable and uncountable, plural spillovers)

That which overflows; the excess or side effect.

(epidemiology) The spread of infectious disease between different species of animal and particularly to humans.

Anagrams

• overspill

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

24 December 2024

INTUITIVELY

(adverb) in an intuitive manner; “inventors seem to have chosen intuitively a combination of explosive and aggressive sounds as warning signals to be used on automobiles”


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Coffee Trivia

According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.

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