by-product
- n a secondary and sometimes unexpected consequence
- n a product made during the manufacture of something else
- This failure may be a by-product of the difficulty Geithner has had staffing up at Treasury.
- While many experts believe the increase is a by-product of a recent broadening of diagnostic criteria, others are convinced that the surge is at least in part real and thereby .
- In a real sense, his political dilemma is a by-product of the discriminatory economic program's success.