(especially BrE) causing other events to happen one after another in a series:
The increase in the price of oil had a knock-on effect on the cost of many other goods.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for knock-on is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is knock-on a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, knock-on is tagged as adjective.
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