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spill over

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. bubble over, overflow, spill oververb

    overflow with a certain feeling

    "The children bubbled over with joy"; "My boss was bubbling over with anger"

  2. spill over, spill out, pour outverb

    be disgorged

    "The crowds spilled out into the streets"

Wiktionary

  1. spill oververb

    To enter into another zone by way of accident or overcrowding; to overflow.

ChatGPT

  1. spill over

    Spill over is a term that refers to the effects or impacts of an event, action, or situation extending beyond its initial area or sphere, influencing other indirectly related areas or contexts. This can happen in various fields, such as economics, science, public health, or sociology. It often implies unintended consequences or secondary effects, which can be either positive or negative. For example, in economics, it could refer to the impact of a country's economic activities on global markets. In public health, it could refer to the movement of a disease from one population to another.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of spill over in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of spill over in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of spill over in a Sentence

  1. Ian Nakamoto:

    It's tough to get excited about the commodities, with Canada having so many of them, given what's going on with China, Greece, commodities depend on robust world wide demand, and we don't have that right now...It's affecting things like Canadian banks, which I always view as a reflection of what's going on with the economy and the spill-over effects.

  2. Christine Lagarde:

    What has been demonstrated in the last few weeks is how much Asia is at the core of the global economy, and how much disruption in one market in Asia can actually spill over to the rest of the world.

  3. The OECD:

    A sharper slowdown of activity in emerging markets and renewed weakness of activity in the euro area could weaken exports more strongly than projected, dampen investment, and spill over to consumer confidence.

  4. Ken Miller:

    Our concern is that if (oil prices) stay low is that we eventually see that spill over into our other revenue sources: personal income tax, consumption tax, motor vehicle taxes, we do have a large part of our economy that is tied directly or indirectly to energy.

  5. Peter Tuz:

    This is easily going to spill over into the second quarter, there isn't a day that goes by now without half a dozen companies expecting some sort of negative effect.


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