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trickle-down en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) That flows, especially in limited quantity, from the highly placed to others.
    • His name is Harry E Thompson and his Trickle-Down solar heating system is the basis for this book. 2007, John Canivan, MTD Solar Heating, John Canivan, →ISBN, page 18:
  2. (not-comparable) Describing the theory that financial benefits given to the wealthy will somehow be passed down to the poor.
    • In addition, it examines the trickle-down effects of economic development as espoused by market theorists in the urban economic development literature. Policymakers in Rockford used the trickle-down logic of market theory to justify a […] 2002, James L. Conyers, Black Cultures and Race Relations, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 125:
    • On the surface, the Kuznets curve seems to justify laissez-faire economics and trickle-down policies. 2012 April 30, Kentaro Toyama, “The Rise and Fall and Rise (Literally) of the Most Important Curve in Economics”, in The Atlantic:
    • While the trickle-down mechanism is based on market optimism (in a well-functioning economy, the poor will benefit automatically from any growth), proponents of direct and indirect policies targeting the poor are market-pessimists, in which […] 2007, Christian Schabbel, The Value Chain of Foreign Aid: Development, Poverty Reduction, and Regional Conditions, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 200:
  3. (not-comparable) Describing a model of product adoption that flows vertically from the upper classes to the lower classes within society.
    • Trickle-down patterns are very common for technological innovations, especially when new gadgets come to market with high price tags. The first black-and-white televisions cost more than some automobiles. 2022, W. David Marx, chapter 8, in Status and Culture, Viking, →ISBN:

Deriveds

trickle-down hypothesis

Relateds

tinkle-down

Translations (4)

pl skapujący (That flows, especially in limited quantity, from the highly placed to others) · pl skapujący (Describing the theory that financial benefits given to the wealthy will somehow be passed down to the poor) · es repercute (That flows, especially in limited quantity, from the highly placed to others) · fr ruissellement (Describing the theory that financial benefits given to the wealthy will somehow be passed down to the poor)