domino effect
Noun
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Noun
domino effect (plural domino effects)
- (figuratively) The situation in which one event sets off a chain of additional events.
- (politics, historical) The theory that, if South Vietnam fell to Communism, it would be followed by Cambodia, Laos, additional Southeast Asian countries, other Asian countries, and likely even elsewhere.
- Synonyms: domino theory
- French: effet domino
- German: Dominoeffekt
- Italian: effetto domino
- Portuguese: efeito dominó
- Russian: эффе́кт домино́
- Spanish: efecto dominó
- German: Dominoeffekt
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