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单词 trickle-up
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trickle-up
trickle-up adj. and n. [after trickle-down adj. at Compounds] originally and chiefly Politics and Political Economy (a) adj. of, relating to, or based on the theory that wealth, information, change, etc., moves or should move upward through a hierarchical structure or organization (as a company, an economy, a social group, etc.); (b) n. this theory or an instance of it in operation.
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1954 N.Y. Times 18 May 32/2 Roger M. Blough.., vice chairman of the board of directors of United States Steel, said here tonight the Administration tax bill now before Congress provided a ‘trickle-up prescription’ for our national well-being.
1969 Amer. Hist. Rev. 74 871 To push for world history in general education is not enough. It offers only a prospect of gradual osmosis of ideas, a ‘trickle up’ theory, that our leadership will eventually be so well educated in things Asian and Chinese, for example, that they will have the wit and wisdom to avoid disaster in our Asian relations.
1981 R. A. Falk Human Rights & State Sovereignty (1984) vi. 176 The United States and other advanced industrial societies have witnessed ‘trickle-up’ phenomena whenever assaults on poverty have been attempted without also transforming underlying societal structures.
1992 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 26 Apr. 29/1 In the real world, trickle-up is the thing. The tabloid sensibility is now rising from the gutter and soaking into the nation's publishing houses and bookstores.
1998 Financial Times (Electronic ed.) 28 Aug. 9 Supply-side economic measures from the Reagan and Thatcher eras have created not so much a trickle-down but ‘trickle-up’ effect.
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