regressive in English

adjective
1
becoming less advanced; returning to a former or less developed state.
the regressive, infantile wish for the perfect parent of early childhood
2
(of a tax) taking a proportionally greater amount from those on lower incomes.
Clearly we are not likely to lower regressive excise taxes on cigarettes, nor are we likely to lower the payroll tax for lower-income workers.
3
proceeding from effect to cause or from particular to universal.
Whilst the first two involve regressive analysis and synthesis, the third and fourth involve decompositional analysis and synthesis.

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1. This is a regressive income tax.

2. This is regressive type of autism.

3. * We have removed lot of regressive taxation regimes.

4. • We have removed lot of regressive taxation regimes.

5. This regressive behaviour is more common in boys.

6. There are two types of assimilation: Regressive and progressive.

7. Another Blatantly regressive tax system is the social security system

8. Additional regressive punitive legislation followed in 1703, 1709 and 1728.

9. There are two types of Assimilation: Regressive and progressive.

10. The policy has been condemned as a regressive step.

11. 3 Another useful classification is between progressive, proportional and regressive taxes.

12. 4 Trade sanctions would in effect amount to a regressive tax.

13. Our analysis shows that lotteries are a form of regressive taxation.

14. Shortly after this regressive move the post was cut completely.

15. Another useful classification is between progressive, proportional and regressive taxes.

16. 6 Any flat tax is inherently unfair, as are all regressive taxes.

17. Any flat tax is inherently unfair, as are all regressive taxes.

18. Many considered the changes to the welfare laws a regressive step.

19. By dint of Ordinarily Least Squares regressive is a pivotal step.

20. I saw at first hand what a regressive prison regime does to prisoners.

21. Bumptious definition: offensively self-assertive synonyms: forward, self-assertive antonyms: backward, timid, regressive

22. It is reactionary and regressive to pretend that television does not exist.

23. Coopered (adj.) Heavily inebriated to the point of experiencing age regressive fantasies in reality

24. This spatial code is used to direct accurate and selective regressive eye movements.

25. Amianthoid (Asbestoid) change is one of several age-associated regressive changes seen in hyaline cartilage

26. Non-domestic rates are also regressive but various measures have sought to ease the burden.

27. However, administrative obstacles and concerns about their possibly regressive nature have still to be addressed.

28. Here are the roots of the regressive trends in adolescence and in adult life.

29. 2 A regressive tax, like the poll tax, takes proportionately more of a poor person's income.

30. 1 A regressive tax, like the poll tax, takes proportionately more of a poor person's income.

31. Conceptualising something as regressive requires either a normative theory or a teleological theory of social development

32. This regressive nature of the community charge is modified by the systems of rebates and exemptions.

33. 7 A new education bill remained unfunded, and reform of a famously regressive tax system made no progress.

34. This produced a comprehensive urban critique and a critique of civilization (but also ‘Antimodernistic’ orientations with regressive tendencies)

35. Some of these forms might be regressive and inconsistent with the poverty reduction objective of the Cotonou Agreement.

36. Although indirect taxes as a whole are regressive, there is some variation between different types of indirect tax.

37. The spokesperson said the information campaign was a fig leaf to hide the most regressive tax in history.

38. It does not seem regressive to put it to use in the service of gay survival as well.

39. 2 A regressive tax structure is one in which the average tax rate falls as income level rises.

40. 6 The spokesperson said the information campaign was a fig leaf to hide the most regressive tax in history.

41. 9 The spokesperson said the information campaign was a fig leaf to hide the most regressive tax in history.

42. Classlessness functions as the ultimate unspoken excuse for a range of inequities stretching from regressive Social Security taxes to pauperization …

43. John Gibson highlights the regressive aspects of recent local government financial reform, and predicts dire consequences for the urban poor.

44. Critics point out that a sales tax is regressive, and supporters counter by suggesting that low-income taxpayers could get rebates.

45. 5 The spokesperson said the information campaign was a fig leaf to hide the most regressive tax in history.

46. Here, in the regressive, infantile wish for the perfect parent of early childhood lies the germ of the police state.

47. Radical cuts to income tax plus large increases in national insurance and indirect taxation have made the tax system far more regressive.

48. The impact of British rule thus led to the evolution of a new structure of agrarian relations that was extremely regressive .

49. If adamantinous craniopharyngiomas show very strongly regressive changes, immunostaining for keratin may be necessary to identify the squamous epithelia for the demonstration of craniopharyngioma.

50. Regressive between tax-payers Reflecting the importance of housing in the household budget, domestic rates fell most heavily on the low-income groups.