knock-on
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| knock-on | |
| —adj | |
| 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 |
| —n | |
| 2. | rugby the infringement of playing the ball forward with the hand or arm |
| —vb | |
| 3. | rugby to play (the ball) forward with the hand or arm |
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Knock-on
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