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spillover

[ spil-oh-ver ]

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noun

the act of spilling over.
a quantity of something spilled over; overflow.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of spillover¹

First recorded in 1940–45; noun use of verb phrase spill over

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"And what we're seeing through bulk milk surveillance is that actually, spillover is happening. Whenever you have these pulses in H5N1 activity in wildlife, it's spilling over into cattle."

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The park crowd was spillover from the annual Picnic Day event hosted by UC Davis.

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The spillover impacts of an all-out China-US trade war would be felt globally, and most economists judge that the impact would be highly negative.

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That leads to a spillover into the corridors, with patients in wheelchairs, on hospital beds and gurneys filling all the available space.

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So the spillover effects could be very, very negative.

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