President Kennedy's assassination had far-reaching repercussions.
Meaning of repercussion in English
(Definition of repercussion from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
repercussion | American Dictionary
repercussion | Business English
There are very few businesses that aren't going to feel some sort of repercussion from the housing slump.
Examples of repercussion
repercussion
These two microstructural effects are expected to have repercussions for the rheology of the suspension containing rough particles.
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To make things worse, the collapse of weaker banks can have systemic repercussions if it sparks bank panics that also undermine economically ' 'healthier' ' banks.
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The process of social change that had begun to affect creole men had greater repercussions in the case of women.
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Picking the ' wrong ' side could entail serious repercussions and it was not always possible to guess how events would turn out.
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These changes have serious repercussions on the extension system, which has been totally dismantled in some countries.
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The foregoing complexities regarding the weight of unstressed syllables have their most important repercussions for nonlexical monosyllables.
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Later born generations will also include greater proportions of more highly educated women which may also have repercussions for the marriage market.
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This metamorphosis, again, has repercussions for poetic language.
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According to its promoters, the creation of a statutory industrial structure would have no serious political repercussions.
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Here, again, the pronominal form is used to indicate purposeful violation of authoritarian expectations, and it implies social and physical repercussions for this violation.
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There were other immediate and long-term military and political repercussions.
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For instance, the management's move to regulate absenteeism had on some occasions serious repercussions.
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For this reason, if no others, liberals should take comfort from the benign repercussions of nationalism.
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Besides, the repercussions of the world economic crisis dominated public health and statistical discourses.
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Readers also have to know that the indication of the third-mode repercussion is the only one that implies a hexachordal mutation.
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Collocations with repercussion
repercussion
These are words often used in combination with repercussion.
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economic repercussions
Although very amusing, the caricature was produced precisely because of the economic repercussions of such mental images.
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immediate repercussions
The introduction of a minimum wage had immediate repercussions.
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international repercussions
Inflation surprises have negligible influences on the growth rate of real activity in all countries, and small international repercussions.
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