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redistributive

redistributive

3 6.7
Related to giving more money or help to people with less to make things fairer
  • adjective
  • /ˌriːdɪsˈtrɪbjʊtɪv/
translation icon : redistributivo
  • Government programs often implement redistributive measures to help reduce poverty among low-income families.
  • redistributive policy
  • redistributive reforms
  • redistributive mechanisms

They distinguish between productive facts and redistributive facts.

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Examples

  • The main effect of money printing is therefore redistributive, rather than additive or subtractive.

    Blog text (25)
  • "More than twenty years ago, Foxley pointed out that a redistributive strategy, in order to be successful, requires solid political support."

    Academic text (2000)
  • Such rules would raise the cost of using central government legislation for redistributive purposes.

    Academic text (1992)
  • We are able to show in this paper that the pricing system does meet its redistributive objectives.

    Academic text (1991)
  • The overall goal of the modern welfare state has been to unite economic prosperity with redistributive social justice.

    Academic text (1996)
  • Korea's spending has remained low for the more directly redistributive process.

    Academic text (1992)
  • The major task that confronts Canadians is to take stock of our redistributive policies.

    Academic text (1993)
  • The hard data shows that Hispanics overwhelmingly favor the redistributive policies of the welfare state.

    Blog text (29)
  • Thus, governments have two necessarily contradictory and coexisting modes: "the protective mode" and "the redistributive mode."

    Academic text (1997)
  • The neoliberal model specifically precludes policies, such as agrarian reform and redistributive measures, that could ameliorate current social conditions.

    Academic text (2000)

Synonyms

distributive
vsredistributive
2 7.0

Relating to giving things out to people or places

applies specifically to the process of making resources more equal in society
redistributionist
vsredistributive
1 8.2

Supporting policies that take money from the rich and give it to the poor

relates to the process of making resources more equally shared
distributionist
vsredistributive
9.3

Supporting an idea that property and goods should be owned by many people

is about actions that aim to make resource shares more equal

Surface Forms

redistributive positive

Morphology

redistributive = redistribute (transparent) = re + distribute + ive

The adjective is a regular and easily interpretable formation from the verb 'redistribute' with '-ive'.

Etymology

Redistributive comes from re- 'again' and distribute 'to give out'. So, a redistributive policy 'gives out again' by moving money or resources to different people to make things more equal.