English-Spanish translations for repercussion

• consecuencia
  ¿Qué tipo de consecuencias indirectas podrá tener esto, por ejemplo, sobre la seguridad alimentaria? What sort of repercussions will it have, for example, on food safety?
  El escándalo ECHO aún no ha tenido consecuencias. The ECHO scandal has still not led to any repercussions.
  Renunciar a él tendrá profundas consecuencias sociales. If we lose it this will have profound social repercussions.

Definition of repercussion

• A consequence or ensuing result of some action
• The act of driving back, or the state of being driven back; reflection; reverberation
• Rapid reiteration of the same sound
• In a vaginal examination, the act of imparting through the uterine wall with the finger a shock to the foetus, so that it bounds upward, and falls back again against the examining finger

Examples

• You realize this little stunt of yours is going to have some pretty serious repercussions.
• the repercussion of sound

Related words

• repertory
• obstreperous
• repertoire
• reperfusion
• crêperie
• foreperson
• creperie
• reperceive
• obstreperosity