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regressive

/ri-gres-iv/US // rɪˈgrɛs ɪv //UK // (rɪˈɡrɛsɪv) //

倒退的,倒退,累退的,累退

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : regressing or tending to regress; retrogressive.
    • : Biology. of, relating to, or effecting regression.
    • : decreasing proportionately with an increase in the tax base.
    • : Logic. obtained from or characterized by backward reasoning.

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Examples

  • Krishnan says the “regressive opposition” to his work “only strengthens my resolve.”

  • Other concerns center on fuel taxes being regressive – having higher impacts on low-income communities.

  • This crisis is particularly regressive—it’s regressive within countries, with the poorest segments of the population being hit.

  • Many who remained felt that Lighthizer represented an old guard, with regressive views of how the economy should work.

  • We certainly know that gambling on, for example, lottery tickets — highly regressive, especially scratch-off tickets.

  • A wave of critics, though, has been denouncing it as anti-democratic and regressive.

  • Nipple also posted the rather regressive question “Did gender equality go to far?”

  • The media, much of it in the hands of regressive establishment figures, eagerly cheered them on.

  • Finally, while sales taxes are regressive, you can make a pretty good case that taxes on e-commerce are progressive.

  • But he has quietly gone from being an outlier to being only one of five consistently regressive votes.

  • To advocate a moral standard higher for women than for men is regarded now as reactionary and regressive.

  • Formal decay begins when a language becomes historical, and it often gives rise to remarkable cases of regressive metamorphosis.

  • The two limits are then called the “progressive” and “regressive” differential coefficients.

  • This influence, a form of regressive assimilation, is known as i-umlaut (pronounced om-lowt).

  • Dream symbols are the most easily demonstrable, and after them, certain peculiarities of regressive dream representations.