knock-on effect

[ nok-on, -awn ]

noun

, Chiefly British.

1. a chain reaction.

Word History and Origins

Origin of knock-on effect¹

adj. use of verb phrase knock on

Example Sentences

With frequently changing guidance relating to restrictions, quarantines and testing requirements, many travelers find the complexity confusing, and this has had a knock-on effect on confidence.

From Digiday

While Krznaric isn’t confident in our ability to predict the knock-on effects of technological shifts, he thinks it’s easier to say for sure that certain ecological shifts would be good.

From Vox

These issues will have a knock-on effect on your page ranking.

From Search Engine Watch

For the latest instalment of our Confessions series, in which we trade anonymity for candor, we spoke to a CEO with approximately 500 employees, about what the knock-on effects of requiring vaccinations would create for workplace culture.

From Digiday

The knock-on effects may extend further and go beyond advertising.

From Digiday

But the largest knock-on effect is, obviously, more unemployed law professors.

From The Daily Beast

And that, of course, would have had a knock-on effect in the private sector.

From The Daily Beast

And the knock-on effect is thoroughly shaking the Digg offices.

From The Daily Beast