spill over
- (intr, adverb) to overflow or be forced out of an area, container, etc
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- mainly US and Canadian the act of spilling over
- mainly US and Canadian the excess part of something
- economics any indirect effect of public expenditure
- astronomy the part of the noise associated with a radio telescope using a dish antenna caused by pick-up by a secondary antenna from directions that do not intercept the dish
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Contemporary Examples
But the major political forces in Lebanon decided to try to quarantine the spill-over effect to that northern area.
The more connected we are, and the higher our incomes, the more our actions have spill-over impacts on others.