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Meaning of repercussion in English
Pronunciation
/ˌripərˈkəʃən/
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Noun
repercussion
Etymology
late Middle English (as a medical term meaning ‘repressing of infection’): from Old French, or from Latin repercussio(n-), from repercutere‘cause to rebound, push back’, from re-‘back, again’ + percutere‘to strike’. The early sense ‘driving back, rebounding’ (mid 16th century) gave rise later to ‘blow given in return’, hence repercussion (sense 1) (early 20th century)
Definitions
1.
a remote or indirect consequence of some action
Examples
« his declaration had unforeseen repercussions »
« reverberations of the market crash were felt years later »
2.
a movement back from an impact