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| Domain | Definition |
Language | Technology developed in the defense and space programs that is usable in the civilian economy, also called spill-over. Source: European Union. (references) |
Post & Telecom | Routing a call to a position in a nominated telegraph office to permit the retransmission of a telegram when the connection cannot be established through to the destination office. . Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Political Economy | Ireland | While there is some potential for spill-over into the Republic of Ireland, such an occurrence is unlikely. (references) |
Ireland | In reality, however, there has been little spill-over of violence or instability, especially since the late-1970s. (references) | |
Panama | Although Panama is one of the most economically developed countries in the region, problems such as trans-national crime, corruption, entrenched poverty, and spill-over problems from Panama's troubled southern neighbor, Colombia, remain serious challenges for Panama's future. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "SPILL-OVER" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "SPILL-OVER" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 7 | 133,076 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "SPILL-OVER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Dutch | winstgevend bijproduct (spin-off), nuttig nevenresultaat (spin-off). (various references) | ||||
French | retombées technologiques (spin-off), débordement. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ill-overspay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: overspill, spillover. | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-l-l-o-p-r-s-v" | |
-1 letter: overslip, slipover. | |
-2 letters: plosive, plovers, pollers, repolls, spiller, spoiler, villose. | |
-3 letters: ervils, lisper, livers, livres, lopers, lories, lovers, oilers, olives, oriels, pelvis, perils, pilose, pliers, plover, poiser, poleis, polers, polies, poller, prills, proles, proves, reoils, repoll, rilles, siller, silver, sliver, sloper, solver, splore, vipers, vireos, voiles. | |
-4 letters: ervil, evils, iller, liers, lisle, liver, lives. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-l-l-o-p-r-s-v" | |
+1 letter: overspills, spillovers. | |
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