Definitions

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective going down by steps.
  • adjective gradually decreasing in rate on sums below a certain amount.

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  • adjective Tending to decrease
  • adjective Decreasing in steps

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective going down by steps
  • adjective (of taxes) gradually decreasing in rate on sums below a certain amount

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Examples

  • By abandoning the notion of degressive bibliography and recording all subsequent versions, bibliography, simply by its own comprehensive logic, its indiscriminate inclusiveness, testifies to the fact that new readers of course make new texts, and ...

    futureofthebook.com 2008

  • By abandoning the notion of degressive bibliography and recording all subsequent versions, bibliography, simply by its own comprehensive logic, its indiscriminate inclusiveness, testifies to the fact that new readers of course make new texts, and ...

    futureofthebook.com 2008

  • Should we follow a traditional pattern with degressive density starting from the center of the metropolis or rather use cluster of high density spreaded around or other scheme?

    Olympic Line (short) closure notice « Stephen Rees's blog 2010

  • The principle applied is one of degressive proportional representation.

    Archive 2007-09-01 2007

  • Second, the shift to tax-based rather than tariff-based finance would enable the government, through the vastly more efficient if still imperfect mechanism of progressive or at least degressive income taxation, to achieve distributional goals utterly unthinkable in the age of tariffs, tight money, and rule by trust.

    Archive 2006-11-01 2006

  • Second, the shift to tax-based rather than tariff-based finance would enable the government, through the vastly more efficient if still imperfect mechanism of progressive or at least degressive income taxation, to achieve distributional goals utterly unthinkable in the age of tariffs, tight money, and rule by trust.

    Bimetallica 2006

  • In Kenya it is customary (and also required by the tax laws) to depreciate the cost of investment items by 25% p. a, in a degressive way.

    4. Case studies of small-scale semi-industrial neem processing in Kenya, Thailand, the Dominican Republic and Nicaragua 2000

  • Levels 3, 4 and 5 are metered and have to pay a fixed rate as well as a differentiated, degressive price per consumed unit (kWh).

    1 Introduction 1992

  • I have tried to show that the best and strictest conception of varieties limits them to those forms that have probably originated by retrograde or degressive steps.

    Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891

  • This process may be designated as degressive evolution; it obviously completes the series of the general types of evolution.

    Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891

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