0 used to refer to a situation in which something that starts in the high parts of a system spreads to the whole of the system: --
1 relating to the idea that poor people experience positive effects when rich people get richer and spend more money: --
2 relating to a situation in which something that starts at the top of an organization, system, etc. spreads to all of it: --
If that country succeeds economically, the trickle-down effect across the whole continent will be of great benefit.
Even in their own terms, trickle-down policies do not work.
Statistics from the outer areas disguise the problems of the inner city, smoothing over need in a general trickle-down theory.
We knew that the trickle-down theory of tax would never work.
It is no use saying that, provided that we give those at the top enough money, there will be a trickle-down factor.
The trickle-down effect is simply a modern version of that.
There is often an unreal argument about economic growth and so-called trickle-down, and investment in human resources.
That is the discredited trickle-down theory of economics.
