COATTAILS EFFECT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does coattails effect mean? 

• COATTAILS EFFECT (noun)
  The noun COATTAILS EFFECT has 1 sense:

1. (politics) the consequence of one popular candidate in an election drawing votes for other members of the same political party

  Familiarity information: COATTAILS EFFECT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COATTAILS EFFECT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(politics) the consequence of one popular candidate in an election drawing votes for other members of the same political party

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Context example:

he counted on the coattails effect to win him the election

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)