redistributive
- adjective
- /ˌriːdɪsˈtrɪbjʊtɪv/
- 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.
- They distinguish between productive facts and redistributive facts.
- So as countries get richer, they get more redistributive.
- And, you know, devaluing the monetary medium that we store our our work and and labor in is always redistributive.
- But critics of Trump's plan say that they're not just redistributive, but that they'll be inflationary and harm the US economy.
Examples
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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
Relating to giving things out to people or places
Supporting policies that take money from the rich and give it to the poor
Supporting an idea that property and goods should be owned by many people
Surface Forms
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.