Usually means: Transmission of disease from animals.
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  1. spillover: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. spillover: Merriam-Webster
  3. spillover: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. spillover: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. spillover: Collins English Dictionary
  6. spillover: Vocabulary.com
  7. Spillover, spillover: Wordnik
  8. spillover: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. spillover: Wiktionary
  10. spillover: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. spillover: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. spillover: Dictionary.com
  13. spillover: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Spillover (economics), Spillover (experiment), Spillover (imaging), Spillover: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. spillover: Rhymezone
  16. spillover: FreeDictionary.org
  17. spillover: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  1. Spillover: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics

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  1. spillover: Encyclopedia

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  1. Spillover: Urban Dictionary

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  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)
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  4. Washington State Definitions and Abbreviations of Vetrinary Terms (No longer online)

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▸ noun:  That which overflows; the excess or side effect.
▸ noun:  (epidemiology) The spread of infectious disease between different species of animal and particularly to humans.

Similar:
overspill, overflow, overspreading, overflux, overswell, overflowingness, overplus, overflush, outpouring, outflowing, more...

Opposite:
containment, isolation, confinement

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positive, negative, functional, political, norepinephrine, little, technological, family, possible, work, international

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Similar:
overspill, overflow, overspreading, overflux, overswell, overflowingness, overplus, overflush, outpouring, outflowing, more...

Opposite:
containment, isolation, confinement

Phrases:
spillover effects, spillover effect, Spillover infection, Spillover of the Tigray War, Spillover of the Syrian civil war, Syrian civil war spillover in Lebanon, Knowledge spillover, more...

Adjectives:
positive, negative, functional, political, norepinephrine, little, technological, family, possible, work, international

Colors:
    teal,     turquoise,     aqua,     cyan,     seafoam, more...



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