contagion
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English (late 14th century), from Old French, from Latin contagio (“a touching, contact, contagion”) related to contingo (“touch closely”)
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -eɪdʒən
Noun[edit]
contagion (plural contagions)
- A disease spread by contact
- The spread or transmission of such a disease
- The spread of anything harmful, as if it were such a disease
- (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.
- 2011, George Soros, Project Syndicate, Germany Must Defend the Euro:
- (finance) A resulting recession or crisis developed in such manner.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
transmission of a contagious disease
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infection — see infection
See also[edit]
- quarantine
Contagious disease on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Contagious disease
French[edit]
Noun[edit]
contagion f (plural contagions)
