spillover
Use Spillover in a sentence
vər noun
1.
the act of spilling over.
2.
a quantity of something spilled over; overflow.
Origin:
1940–45; noun use of verb phrase spill over
1940–45; noun use of verb phrase spill over
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| spillover | |
noun | |
| (economics) any indirect effect of public expenditure |
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Spillover
is always a great word to know.
So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
Example sentences
Part of it also can be traced to a me-too spillover from the diagnostic arena.
Of course there is violence along the border- spillover of criminal organizations and spillover crime and intimidation.
So far, there has been no sign of such a spillover effect this time around.
Minimizing displacement by maximizing the spillover gap.
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