spillover
/ˈspɪlˌoʊ·vər/ n [U]Definition
› an effect that results from a problem spreading: Chemotherapy poisons the bad cells, but we know there's spillover, and sometimes the treatment hurts patients.
(Definition of spillover n from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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