Trickle-down Definition

trĭkəl-doun
trickledown
adjective
Designating or of an economic theory that holds that profits and growth among the largest businesses will eventually benefit the entire economy, including the economically depressed.
Webster's New World
That flows, especially in limited quantity, from the highly placed to others.
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verb

(economics) To pass from high-ranked people to lower-ranked people.

The CEO's benefits are unlikely to trickle down to the factory workers.
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Trickle-down Sentence Examples

  • As Wrong shows, under Mobutu the Congolese people experienced not so much a ' trickle down ' as a bleeding dry.

  • Modern interior design ideas trickle down from design shows like Maison et Objet, Salone de Mobile in Italy, and High Point Furniture Market in North Carolina.

  • By giving the rich all the wealth, poor people were supposed to benefit by a " trickle down effect ".

  • Fortunately, trends trickle down in this area as well, so junior girls will find plenty of ways to add unique flair to their outfits.

  • But the trickle-down effect is still present when it comes to pregnant fashionistas and their followers.

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