knock-on

British  

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

verb

1. rugby to play (the ball) forward with the hand or arm

Example Sentences

Pausing the federal energy tax could have negative knock-on effects.

From Barron's • May 12, 2026

Sewage and agricultural pollution in rivers is having an "alarming" knock-on impact on marine life in underwater forests along the British coastline, according to new research.

From BBC • May 2, 2026

Fed policymakers have signalled that they are concerned about the knock-on effects of the energy price increases fuelling overall inflation and potentially slowing the economy due to production cost increases.

From Barron's • Apr. 28, 2026

About a fifth of the nation’s workforce is involved in the agriculture sector, meaning any decisions by farmers to reduce production has knock-on effects across the entire economy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026

In these last two chapters we have been looking at the ways in which intellectual change has knock-on consequences.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton