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trickle down
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See also: trickledown and trickle-down
English
Verb
trickle down (third-person singular simple present trickles down, present participle trickling down, simple past and past participle trickled down)
- (economics) To pass from high-ranked people to lower-ranked people
- The CEO's benefits are unlikely to trickle down to the factory workers.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see trickle, down.
Usage notes
Sometimes shortened to trickle.
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