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spillover

[ spil-oh-ver ]

noun

  1. the act of spilling over.
  2. a quantity of something spilled over; overflow.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of spillover1

First recorded in 1940–45; noun use of verb phrase spill over
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The park crowd was spillover from the annual Picnic Day event hosted by UC Davis.

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The spillover impacts of an all-out China-US trade war would be felt globally, and most economists judge that the impact would be highly negative.

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That leads to a spillover into the corridors, with patients in wheelchairs, on hospital beds and gurneys filling all the available space.

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So the spillover effects could be very, very negative.

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"The main threat to the UK economy from Trump's tariffs may well be the spillover from higher US interest rates, rather than tariffs themselves," says the economist Julian Jessop.

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