Usually means: Spread of disease among individuals.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. contagion: Merriam-Webster
  2. contagion: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. contagion: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. contagion: Collins English Dictionary
  5. contagion: Vocabulary.com
  6. Contagion, contagion: Wordnik
  7. contagion: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. contagion: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. contagion: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. contagion: Dictionary.com
  11. Contagion (Arena album), Contagion (Oceano album), Contagion (TNG episode), Contagion (film), Contagion (movie), Contagion (novel), Contagion (video game), Contagion: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Contagion: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. contagion: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. contagion: Rhymezone
  15. Contagion, contagion (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. contagion: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. contagion: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  18. contagion: FreeDictionary.org
  19. contagion: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. contagion: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. contagion: Wiktionary
  22. contagion: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  23. contagion: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. Contagion: Investopedia
  4. Contagion: Financial dictionary
  5. contagion: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. contagion: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. contagion: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  4. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  5. CONTAGION: Vocabulary of Loss: Suicide, Grief, and Ethics
  6. contagion: Medical dictionary
  7. Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sociology (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Contagion: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See contagions as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A disease spread by contact.
noun:  The spread or transmission of such a disease.
noun:  (figuratively, by extension) The spread of anything likened to a contagious disease.
noun:  The passing on of manners or behaviour through a closed community or household.
noun:  (finance) The spread of (initially small) shocks, which initially affect only a few financial institutions or a particular region of an economy, to other financial sectors and other countries whose economies were previously healthy.
noun:  (finance) A recession or crisis developed in such manner.

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