Usually means: Wealth redistribution theory favoring wealthy.
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  1. trickle-down: Merriam-Webster
  2. trickle-down: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. trickle-down: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. trickle-down, trickle-down: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Trickle-Down, Trickle-down, trickle-down: Wordnik
  6. trickle-down: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. trickle-down: Wiktionary
  8. trickle-down: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. trickle-down: Dictionary.com
  10. trickle-down: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. trickle-down: Encyclopedia

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adjective:  That flows, especially in limited quantity, from the highly placed to others.
adjective:  (economics) Describing the theory that financial benefits given to the wealthy will somehow be passed down to the poor.
adjective:  (marketing) Describing a model of product adoption that flows vertically from the upper classes to the lower classes within society.

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