flow-on effect

See also: flow on effect

English

Alternative forms

• flow on effect

Noun

flow-on effect (plural flow-on effects)

1. The indirect effect of an action that arises when the immediate result causes similar effects in additional settings.
   • 2002, M. D. R. Evans, Jonathan Kelley, Australian Economy and Society, 2001, →ISBN:

     Participants in public worship do develop a little more sympathy than do those who never darken the door of a church, but the effect is small (standardised regression coefficient of .06), and so there is no measurable flow-on effect onto payment ideals.

   • 2013, C.K. Stead, Answering to the Language: Essays on Modern Writers, →ISBN:

     Not that the poet must have read assiduously back through the ages (though it will be none the worse for him if he has); but rather that there is a flow-on effect —a kind of apostolic succession.

   • 2015, Lyn Worsley, The Resilience Doughnut: The Secret of Strong Adults, →ISBN:

     When each of the doughnut strengths are connected in some way there is an inevitable flow-on effect. A flow-on effect is where other factors of the doughnut are also strengthened or enhanced in some way.