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What does regressive mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word regressive? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. That tends to return, revert or regress.
  2. (of a tax) Whose rate decreases as the amount increases.
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It could be argued that high subsidence rates of the rift basin there meant that a regressive signal was not recorded.
Dystopians, in contradistinction to utopians, believe that technology is more regressive than progressive, more a force for evil than good.
Our evolution has been mired in regressive politics and leaders who misdirect public policy on diversionary insignificancy.
Broadly speaking, the more conservative the state's political representation in the legislature, the more regressive its tax burden.
He said the possibility of bringing back fees, being considered in a government review of third level funding, could prove regressive.
We are offering the Bill to the Government in the hope that they will take it on board and run with this rather than their own regressive Bill.

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