Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The slow descent of minute particles of debris in the atmosphere following an explosion, especially the descent of radioactive debris after a nuclear explosion.
- n. The particles that descend in this fashion.
- n. An incidental result or side effect: "Other social trends also have psychiatric fallout, and the people who suffer can't afford treatment” ( Martha Farnsworth Riche).
Wiktionary
- n. The event of small airborne particles falling to the ground in significant quantities as a result of major industrial activity, volcano eruption, sandstorm, nuclear explosion, etc.
- n. The particles themselves.
- n. A negative side effect; an undesirable or unexpected consequence.
- n. rare A declined offer in a sales transaction when acceptance was presumed.
- n. rare The person who declines such an offer.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. the radioactive particles that settle to the ground after a nuclear explosion.
- n. the falling to the ground of radioactive particles lifted into the atmosphere by a nuclear explosion.
- n. an incidental or unexpected effect, especially one which is undesirable, consequent to an event or process; ; -- usually used only in the singular.
- n. (Med.), cant one selected from a group by some criterion.
- n. cant one who fails to maintain the same pace as and lags behind a group of which s/he is a member.
WordNet 3.0
- v. leave (a barracks) in order to take a place in a military formation, or leave a military formation
- v. come as a logical consequence; follow logically
- v. have a breach in relations
- v. come to pass
- v. come off
- n. the radioactive particles that settle to the ground after a nuclear explosion
- n. any adverse and unwanted secondary effect
Etymologies
- From the verb fall out; fall + out (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Another McCain fallout from the values summit - McCain forgot he voted to confirm three judges he said he would never nominate.”
“LEMON: Well, we often use the term fallout to mean repercussions or consequences, but in this story we mean fallout.”
“Due to the severe fallout from the terrorist attacks that came on the heels of the telecom and Internet industry implosions, virtually all non-critical spending stopped.”
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“An unexpected call for a no-confidence vote against Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung over his handling of a debt crisis at one of Vietnam's biggest state-owned firms shows that the political fallout from the country's worst-ever financial scandal might just be starting, analysts say.”
The Wall Street Journal: Vietnamese Premier Faces Fallout on Vinashin
“A local furniture store and a handful of restaurants have gone out of business in recent weeks, blaming fallout from the spill.”
The Wall Street Journal: Spill Payments Irk Alabama Business
“The fallout from the Mexican "booze and hookers" party rumbles on, reports Milenio.”
“There's no shortage of outrage directed at AIG today as the fallout from the bailed-out insurer's announcement that they intend to use $165 million in taxpayer money to pay bonuses to the very executives that ruined the company continues.”
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“Yes, Obama is still Commander in Chief, and yes, the U.S. remains the world's sole superpower, but while foreign policy played nary a role in the midterm elections, the foreign policy fallout from the election drubbing is unavoidable.”
The Huffington Post: Amb. Marc Ginsberg: The Post Election Foreign Policy Hangover
“Gulf of Mexico in a sign energy companies are still willing to stake their future on deep-water projects despite uncertainty over fallout from the Gulf oil spill.”
“But many Western analysts now argue that Tehran's regional soft power has declined over the last couple of years, following the election of Barack Obama as President of the United States, the fallout from the Islamic Republic's June 2009 presidential election, and the imposition of new sanctions against Iran over its nuclear activities.”
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Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
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Lees
Items of little or no value that are left behind by physical or biological processes other than passing through an alimentary canal. See also Valse's Leftovers and reesetee's Hogwash! for other tak...
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Children From Russia Spend Summer
Children From Russia Spend Summers in California
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Ocadito's list
Heterogeneity. From Politics to nightlife.
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