contagion

IPA: kʌntˈeɪdʒʌn

A disease spread by contact.
The spread or transmission of such a disease.
(figuratively, by extension) The spread of anything likened to a contagious disease.
The passing on of manners or behaviour through a closed community or household.
(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.
(finance) A recession or crisis developed in such manner.

Examples of "contagion" in Sentences

The contagion had infected all the officers.
In this context, the notion of contagion is neutral.
The bodies must then be burned to kill the contagion.
It also doesn't explain what the contagion heuristic is.
The contagion was spread from Livonia and Finland by ship.
Pandemic obesity and the contagion of nutritional nonsense.
However, this is not the same phenomenon as simple contagion.
They believe that this will relieve them of diseases and contagion.
Psychic contagion is the nature of their function towards each other.
He begs her to burn all he brought with him to stop the spread of contagion.
It's strange, the use of the word "contagion" with respect to financial markets.
Also, the euro debt - again, we hear the term contagion - has the possibility of affecting everything economic, not just solar.