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"spillover" is a correct and usable word in written English
It is typically used to describe a situation where the effects or consequences of one situation, action, or event have an effect on a separate situation, action, or event. For example, "The spillover from the economic recession caused other industries to suffer."
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spillover
noun
That which overflows; the excess or side effect.
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With a new introduction by the author, David Quammen's hair-raising report tracks the virus from chimp populations in the jungles of southeastern Cameroon to laboratories across the globe, as he unravels the mysteries of when, where, and under what circumstances such a consequential spillover can happen.
The threat of a spillover from the conflict in Syria is also still a worry.
Grossly inadequate sanitation practices at a peacekeeping base, including the spillover of faecal waste, led to the contamination of a nearby stream.
Along its side is a line of loading bays, suggesting it could be intended as a spillover site for the brimming cargo terminal nearby.
Spillover effects are another risk.
We can decompose the statistics to support various narratives, but to me it seems clear that, at a minimum, the security threat from illegal immigrants and spillover violence is a lot smaller than people make it out to be.That doesn't mean we shouldn't be concerned at all.
Mr Chávez himself said he expected the mediation to take a year.Relations between Colombia and Venezuela have long mixed closeness with tensions, some of them caused by the spillover from Colombia's armed conflict.
So far, there has been no sign of such a spillover effect this time around.
Tanzania, Uganda, the Central African Republic and Congo-Brazzaville could also be affected, at least by a new influx of refugees, and possibly by a spillover from the fighting.There are over 100,000 armed foreigners in Congo, of whom about 58,000 are members of rebel groups from neighbouring countries.
Mr Posen connects this gap to differences in the structure of their respective financial systems and the greater spillover to Britain of trouble in the euro area.
Nonetheless, he concludes that from both calibration exercises and historical literature, the spillover effect was net negative.
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