0 the effect that an action, event, or decision has on something, especially a bad effect: --
President Kennedy's assassination had far-reaching repercussions.
Any decrease in tourism could have serious repercussions for the local economy.
1 the usually bad effect of an event, action, or decision: --
2 the effect that an action, event, or decision has on something, especially a bad effect: --
There are very few businesses that aren't going to feel some sort of repercussion from the housing slump.
The imbalance between supply and demand risks serious repercussions for the world economy.
The nation's political crisis is having economic repercussions.
have repercussions for sb/sth This case is likely to have repercussions for employees.
Readers also have to know that the indication of the third-mode repercussion is the only one that implies a hexachordal mutation.
Besides, the repercussions of the world economic crisis dominated public health and statistical discourses.
For this reason, if no others, liberals should take comfort from the benign repercussions of nationalism.
For instance, the management's move to regulate absenteeism had on some occasions serious repercussions.
There were other immediate and long-term military and political repercussions.
Here, again, the pronominal form is used to indicate purposeful violation of authoritarian expectations, and it implies social and physical repercussions for this violation.
According to its promoters, the creation of a statutory industrial structure would have no serious political repercussions.
This metamorphosis, again, has repercussions for poetic language.
