If there is a knock-on effect, one action or event causes several other events to happen one after the other.
[British]
The cut in new car prices has had a knock-on effect on the price of used cars.
...a knock-on boost to the economy.
knock-on in British English
adjective
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-oneffect on the area
noun
2. rugby
the infringement of playing the ball forward with the hand or arm
verbknock on(adverb)
3. rugby
to play (the ball) forward with the hand or arm
Examples of 'knock-on' in a sentence
knock-on
Such action invariably had a knock-on effect, causing further delays throughout the network.
Magnus Mills THE SCHEME FOR FULL EMPLOYMENT (2003)
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All related terms of 'knock-on'
flow-on
resulting inevitably but indirectly from another event or circumstance
knock-on effect
something that results inevitably but indirectly from another event or circumstance
knock on the head
to daze or kill (a person) by striking on the head
touch wood
You can say ' touch wood ' in British English , or ' knock on wood ' in American English, to indicate that you hope to have good luck in something you are doing, usually after saying that you have been lucky with it so far .
knock something on the head
to show that a story or an idea is not true or correct
knock on the door of something
to try to join a club or a group, or to try to become part of it