Associations to the word «Regressive»
Noun
- Assimilation
- Progressive
- Taxation
- Payroll
- Tax
- Autism
- Vat
- Vowel
- Consonant
- Fourier
- Redistribution
- Rationality
- Income
- Privatization
- Exemption
- Regression
- Burden
- Taxpayer
- Sediment
- Shoreline
- Consumption
- Cain
- Percentage
- Financing
- Weiss
- Auto
- Lottery
- Stratum
- Incentive
- Substitution
- Subsidy
- Evolution
- Gambling
- Tendency
- Revenue
- Harmony
- Therapist
- Suffix
- Tariff
- Confrontation
- Erosion
- Decrease
- Incidence
- Delta
- Gone
- Onset
- Wealth
- Ethics
- Inequality
- Sequence
- Regime
- Behavior
- Trait
- Fauna
- Pollution
- Ideology
- Verb
- Proportion
- Shift
- Casino
- Cluster
- Social
- Discrimination
- Rate
- Synthesis
- Policy
- Opponent
- Cycle
Adjective
Wiktionary
REGRESSIVE, adjective. That tends to return, revert or regress.
REGRESSIVE, adjective. (of a tax) Whose rate decreases as the amount increases.
Dictionary definition
REGRESSIVE, adjective. (of taxes) adjusted so that the rate decreases as the amount of income increases.
REGRESSIVE, adjective. Opposing progress; returning to a former less advanced state.
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.