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jam-spreading en · NOUN

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  1. (UK) The practice of spreading resources or costs evenly, and thus thinly (rather than concentrating them in one area).
    • […] and so levelling up is not a jam-spreading operation, it’s not robbing Peter to pay Paul, it's not zero sum it’s win win for the whole United Kingdom and so here is the plan for levelling up. 2021 July 15, Boris Johnson, The Prime Minister's Levelling Up speech:
    • 175. Overman ( 2013) refers to the problem whereby political logic encourages a 'jam spreading' approach to the distribution of policy funds which then leads to fragmentation and a lack of resource concentration. […] 2016, Philip McCann, The UK Regional-National Economic Problem:
    • The tale of 'spreading jam' A common problem is the way that businesses 'spread' their overhead costs across customers: that is, they spread them evenly, irrespective of the actual costs involved in dealing with different customers. They do the same when looking at product profitability, even at different business units — a laziness equally damaging to decision making. Take the following example of a company that talked itself out of business because of such 'jam spreading'. […] 2010, Bob Cinnamon, Brian Helweg-Larsen, How to Understand Business Finance, page 48: