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UK
/ɹɪɡɹˈɛsɪv/
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[ US /ɹəˈɡɹɛsɪv/ ]
[ US /ɹəˈɡɹɛsɪv/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- opposing progress; returning to a former less advanced state
- (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.