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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/
: 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
1 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.