immediate repercussions

collocation in English

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immediate
adjective
uk
/ɪˈmiː.di.ət/us
/ɪˈmiː.di.ət/
happening or done without delay or very soon after ...
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repercussion
noun[C usually plural]
uk
/ˌriː.pəˈkʌʃ.ən/us
/ˌriː.pɚˈkʌʃ.ən/
the effect that an action, event, or decision has on something, especially a ...
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It does, in fact, in some industries, have animmediaterepercussionupon wages.
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He spoke of it being impossible because of theimmediaterepercussionof opinion all over the country caused by proposals which somehow or other had leaked out.
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The introduction of a minimum wage had immediate repercussions.
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The decision to take the country into the war had some immediate repercussions.
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The immediate repercussions were limited.
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Oppenheimer's talk had immediate repercussions.
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That has immediate repercussions on the deer forests round about.
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It has been said that there will be immediate repercussions on our nuclear arrangements.
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This time that would have immediate repercussions on stock market prices.
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That would have immediate repercussions on the fishing industry.
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These developments have immediate repercussions, and will have continuing repercussions in the next few years, in causing many workers to become redundant.
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Any startling decline in our own industry would produce immediate repercussions on our credit abroad, which would in turn worsen the calamity which would befall us.
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You cannot have a demobilization scheme which has gone at the rate at which this country has pressed for it without having immediate repercussions on the leave scheme.
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It is almost impossible for me to conceive of a situation in which an explosion anywhere in the world did not have immediate repercussions in this country.
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This decision led to immediate repercussions, because various other local authorities all over the country had been giving various other kinds of concessionary fares on their buses, trams and trolleybuses.
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The war had a number of immediate repercussions.
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Pawlowski's arrest had immediate repercussions.
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