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BANDWAGON EFFECT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does bandwagon effect mean?
• BANDWAGON EFFECT (noun)
The noun BANDWAGON EFFECT has 1 sense:
1. the phenomenon of a popular trend attracting even greater popularity
Familiarity information: BANDWAGON EFFECT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The phenomenon of a popular trend attracting even greater popularity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Context example:
polls are accused of creating a bandwagon effect to benefit their candidate
Hypernyms ("bandwagon effect" is a kind of...):
consequence; effect; event; issue; outcome; result; upshot (a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon)
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