spill over
verb
(intr, adverb) to overflow or be forced out of an area, container, etc
noun spillover
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
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition
© William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Related Words for spill over
drain, inundate, brim, deluge, spill, leak, drown, pour, swamp, cascade, gush, submerge, soak, overrun, engulf, sprinkle, stream, squirt, flow, dribbleExamples from the Web for spill over
Contemporary Examples of spill over
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.