contagion

English

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Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪdʒən

Noun

contagion (plural contagions)

1. A disease spread by contact
2. The spread or transmission of such a disease
3. The spread of anything harmful, as if it were such a disease
4. (finance) A situation in which small shocks, which initially affect only a few financial institutions or a particular region of an economy, spread to the rest of financial sectors and other countries whose economies were previously healthy.
   • 2011, George Soros, Project Syndicate, Germany Must Defend the Euro:

     And it was German procrastination that aggravated the Greek crisis and caused the contagion that turned it into an existential crisis for Europe.

5. (finance) A resulting recession or crisis developed in such manner.

Translations

contagious disease

Belarusian: інфекцыя (be) (infékcyja) f. Bulgarian: инфекция (bg) (infékcija) f., заразна болест (bg) (zarázna bólest) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 傳染 (zh), 传染 (zh) (chuánrǎn) Czech: nákaza (cs) f. Dutch: besmetting (nl) Finnish: tartunta (fi) French: contagion (fr) f. German: Ansteckung (de) f. Greek: μεταδοτική ασθένεια (metadotikí asthéneia) Hungarian: ragály (hu), fertőzés (hu)

Ido: kontagio Italian: contagio m. (1,2,3) Japanese: 伝染 (ja) (でんせん, densen) Korean: 감염 (ko) (gam-yeom) (感染 (ko)) Latin: contagio nom. Polish: zarażenie n. Portuguese: contágio (pt) n. Romanian: contagiune f. Russian: инфекция (ru) (infékcija) f., заразная болезнь (ru) (zaráznaja bolézn’) f. Spanish: contagio (es) m. Turkish: salgın (tr) Ukrainian: інфекція (uk) (infékcija) f.

infection — see infection

See also

• quarantine
• Contagious disease on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Contagious disease

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French

Noun

contagion f. (plural contagions)

1. contagion

Related terms

• contagieux