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Contagion vs Crises - What's the difference?

contagion | crises |

As a noun contagion

is a disease spread by contact.

contagion

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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 , , 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.
  • (finance) A resulting recession or crisis developed in such manner.

    • Derived terms

    * anticontagion * contagionism * contagionist

    See also

    * quarantine * (Contagious disease) ----

    crises

    English

    Noun

    (head)

    • Anagrams

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