| 单词 | trickle-down |
| 释义 | > as lemmastrickle-down trickle-down adj. originally and chiefly U.S. of or based on the theory that economic benefits to particular groups will inevitably be passed on to those less well off; also transferred as n., a filtering down (of money or ideas). ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > management of national resources > [adjective] > of or relating to specific theories or doctrines physiocratical1789 Smithian1801 physiocratic1804 protective1822 Ricardian1824 cameralistic1831 Marshallian1894 monetarist1914 Paretian1916 neoclassical1926 marginalist1929 Keynesian1931 underconsumptionist1936 pre-Keynesian1939 Walrasian1942 trickle-down1944 neo-Keynesian1947 Schumpeterian1950 structuralist1962 monetaristic1972 market fundamentalist1997 society > communication > information > action of informing > [noun] informinga1382 traditionc1384 informationa1393 kithinga1400 instruction?a1439 impartment1604 informance1604 re-representation1679 didactic1754 briefing1910 imparting1952 trickle-down1962 1931 W. Rogers in Tulsa Daily World 12 July iv. 7/3 What about the old Boys here on the home grounds? Well maybe this thing will eventually reach him in some beneficial way. Lord knows what way it may trickle down to him some day.] 1944 Antioch Rev. Summer 192 In agriculture, as in business, they are devotees of the trickle-down philosophy. 1949 H. S. Truman in Sun (Baltimore) 6 Jan. 6/1 We have rejected the discredited theory that the fortunes of the nation should be in the hands of a privileged few. We have abandoned the ‘trickle-down’ concept of national prosperity. 1954 Sun (Baltimore) 13 Feb. ( b ed.) 2/1 The Administration has already offered us a trickle-down tax program. Now, we are presented with a trickle-down housing program. 1962 C. Walsh From Utopia to Nightmare i. 18 There has been a trickle-down [of ideas] and permeation. 1971 Publishers' Weekly 6 Dec. 17/2 It is to be hoped that textbook writers come in contact with frontier thinkers or their writings and translate some of the results into educational materials. This is known as the ‘trickle-down’ process. 1977 Time 16 May 38/2 It's classic trickle-down economics. 1980 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts July 508/2 The theory that if you build the industrial capability and increase the GNP of the country there will be a trickle-down to people at subsistence level. 1981 Plate & Darvi Secret Police ii. 42 If the sovereign himself is corrupt or family and relatives are corrupt, there can be a trickle-down effect into the ranks. 1984 New Yorker 16 Apr. 82/2 To Fink this often sounded suspiciously like Republican trickle-down economics. < as lemmas |
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