knock-on

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

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

Sources within the airline suggest the situation is being brought under control, but there are concerns that delays this evening could have a knock-on effect on Tuesday's flights.

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The US authorisation will also have a further knock-on effect: enabling the UK and France to grant Ukraine permission to use Storm Shadow missiles inside Russia.

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There is another knock-on consequence.

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Resources had been "stretched", particularly in intensive care, she said, with a knock-on effect on the care some Covid patients received.

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Graham might have binned for a deliberate knock-on and then a Portuguese player was taken out in the air at a line-out.

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