For a Ripple Effect?

A ripple effect occurs when an initial disturbance to a system propagates outward to disturb an increasingly larger portion of the system, like ripples expanding across the water when an object is dropped into it. The ripple effect is often used colloquially to mean a multiplier in macroeconomics.

What a ripple effect meaning?

: a spreading, pervasive, and usually unintentional effect or influence the automotive industry has a ripple effect on many other industries — compare domino effect.

How do you use ripple effect in a sentence?

(1) Delayed flights have a ripple effect. Just one late flight could be carrying passengers for a dozen connecting services. (2) His resignation will have a ripple effect on the whole department. (3) The increase had a ripple effect through the whole financial market.