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COATTAILS EFFECT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(politics) the consequence of one popular candidate in an election drawing votes for other members of the same political party
Example:
he counted on the coattails effect to win him the election
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Hypernyms ("coattails effect" is a kind of...):
consequence; effect; event; issue; outcome; result; upshot (a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon)
Domain category:
government; political science; politics (the study of government of states and other political units)