contagion

Definitions

con- (together) + tag- (touch) + -ion (act) = "the act of spreading by touch." Where contagious is the adjective, contagion is the noun for the process itself — and it is widely used figuratively in finance and politics: financial contagion is a crisis spreading from one market to the next.

Common Collocations

• 1.contagion effect传染效应
• 2.financial contagion金融蔓延
• 3.spread of contagion传染的扩散
• 4.risk of contagion蔓延风险

Example Sentences

• 1.

  Strict quarantine slowed the contagion to a trickle.

• 2.

  Regulators feared financial contagion across the banking sector.