Definitions
1.nounA disease spread by contact
2.nounThe spread or transmission of such a disease
3.noun(by extension) the spread of anything harmful, as if it were such a disease
4.nounA situation in which small shocks, which initially affect only a few financial institutions or a particular region of an economy, spread to the rest of financial sectors and other countries whose economies were previously healthy
5.nounA resulting recession or crisis developed in such manner