contagion
- Noun. A disease spread by contact.
- Noun. The spread or transmission of such a disease.
- Noun. The spread of anything harmful, as if it were such a disease.
- Noun. (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.
- Noun. (finance) A resulting recession or crisis developed in such manner.
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