"flow-on effect" meaning in English

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      "form": "flow-on effects",
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        "plural"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "2002, M. D. R. Evans, Jonathan Kelley, Australian Economy and Society, 2001",
          "text": "Participants in public worship do develop a little more sympathy than do those who never darken the door of a church, but the effect is small (standardised regression coefficient of .06), and so there is no measurable flow-on effect onto payment ideals.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, C.K. Stead, Answering to the Language: Essays on Modern Writers",
          "text": "Not that the poet must have read assiduously back through the ages (though it will be none the worse for him if he has); but rather that there is a flow-on effect —a kind of apostolic succession.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Lyn Worsley, The Resilience Doughnut: The Secret of Strong Adults",
          "text": "When each of the doughnut strengths are connected in some way there is an inevitable flow-on effect. A flow-on effect is where other factors of the doughnut are also strengthened or enhanced in some way.",
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        }
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        "The indirect effect of an action that arises when the immediate result causes similar effects in additional settings."
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      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "flow on effect"
        }
      ]
    }
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  "word": "flow-on effect"
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    {
      "form": "flow-on effects",
      "tags": [
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      ]
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "2002, M. D. R. Evans, Jonathan Kelley, Australian Economy and Society, 2001",
          "text": "Participants in public worship do develop a little more sympathy than do those who never darken the door of a church, but the effect is small (standardised regression coefficient of .06), and so there is no measurable flow-on effect onto payment ideals.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, C.K. Stead, Answering to the Language: Essays on Modern Writers",
          "text": "Not that the poet must have read assiduously back through the ages (though it will be none the worse for him if he has); but rather that there is a flow-on effect —a kind of apostolic succession.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Lyn Worsley, The Resilience Doughnut: The Secret of Strong Adults",
          "text": "When each of the doughnut strengths are connected in some way there is an inevitable flow-on effect. A flow-on effect is where other factors of the doughnut are also strengthened or enhanced in some way.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "flow on effect"
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  "word": "flow-on effect"
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