0 the effect that an action, event, or decision has on something, especially a bad effect:
Any decrease in tourism could have serious repercussions for the local economy.
President Kennedy's assassination had far-reaching repercussions.
2 the effect that an action, event, or decision has on something, especially a bad effect:
have repercussions for sb/sth This case is likely to have repercussions for employees.
The nation's political crisis is having economic repercussions.
The imbalance between supply and demand risks serious repercussions for the world economy.
There are very few businesses that aren't going to feel some sort of repercussion from the housing slump.
These two microstructural effects are expected to have repercussions for the rheology of the suspension containing rough particles.
To make things worse, the collapse of weaker banks can have systemic repercussions if it sparks bank panics that also undermine economically ' 'healthier' ' banks.
The process of social change that had begun to affect creole men had greater repercussions in the case of women.
Picking the ' wrong ' side could entail serious repercussions and it was not always possible to guess how events would turn out.
These changes have serious repercussions on the extension system, which has been totally dismantled in some countries.
The foregoing complexities regarding the weight of unstressed syllables have their most important repercussions for nonlexical monosyllables.
Later born generations will also include greater proportions of more highly educated women which may also have repercussions for the marriage market.
This metamorphosis, again, has repercussions for poetic language.
