flow-on effect

plural flow-on effects · alternative flow on effect

1. The indirect effect of an action that arises when the immediate result causes similar effects in additional settings.

   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.

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

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   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.

   2002, M. D. R. Evans, Jonathan Kelley, Australian Economy and Society, 2001, →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.

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