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regressive

[ UK /ɹɪɡɹˈɛsɪv/ ]
[ US /ɹəˈɡɹɛsɪv/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. opposing progress; returning to a former less advanced state
  2. (of taxes) adjusted so that the rate decreases as the amount of income increases

How To Use regressive In A Sentence

  • Work with your staff on understanding the regressive behaviors that may be exhibited.
  • The implications are, in their way, deeply regressive. Times, Sunday Times
  • Of course, in some sense, this is a regressive tax as poorer laborers are probably the least likely to have flexibility in setting their work schedules for the sake of avoiding the higher taxes.
  • Broadly speaking, the more conservative the state's political representation in the legislature, the more regressive its tax burden.
  • Local governments depend especially on the generally regressive property tax, and there are fewer people to share the cost of programmes. Rural Land-Use Planning in Developed Nations
  • This was a regressive tax system, but less regressive than that of any other industrialized country.
  • And if you tax consumption with indirect taxation, taxes often pyramid, with resultant price increases of a regressive nature.
  • Lastly, are we really preparing for developed world status, or are we on a regressive path to under-developed status?
  • For instance, suppose you needed to generate time-varying Rayleigh fading channels based on autoregressive models to support your fading channel simulation. Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » Me being interviewed in EE Times
  • Without regressive evolution to prune the phenotype, all species would be encumbered by billion-year-long lists of superannuated traits.
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