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SPILLOVER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does spillover mean?
• SPILLOVER (noun)
The noun SPILLOVER has 1 sense:
1. (economics) any indirect effect of public expenditure
Familiarity information: SPILLOVER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(economics) any indirect effect of public expenditure
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Hypernyms ("spillover" is a kind of...):
consequence; effect; event; issue; outcome; result; upshot (a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon)
Domain category:
economic science; economics; political economy (the branch of social science that deals with the production and distribution and consumption of goods and services and their management)
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