Betydelse av regressive på svenska

• 0 returning to a previous and less advanced or worse state or way of behaving:

  • Incinerating waste rather than recycling it would be a regressive step.

  • Vigilance is needed to overcome the natural regressive tendency to become complacent.

  • 18 patients had active leprosy, and in 27 the disease was regressive.

  • Regressive behaviour - bed-wetting, throwing tantrums, waking in the night - is common.

  • Separation anxiety, regressive symptoms, and psychosomatic manifestations are frequently associated with PTSD .

  • Most autism is regressive.

  • An association was found between regressive autism and bowel problems.

• 1 (of tax) lower on large amounts of money, so that the rich are less affected:

  • Regressive taxation means that poor people wind up paying a larger percentage of their income in tax than rich people do.

  • The single most regressive tax is the tax on food because everyone has to eat.

• 2 used to describe ideas or systems that are old-fashioned and do not encourage change or development:

  • The movement will defeat the autocratic and regressive regime.

• 3 used to describe an economic or tax system in which there are advantages for rich people and disadvantages for poor people:

  • Economists generally regard sales taxes as regressive, since the poor spend a greater part of their income than the rich.

  • regressive policy/subsidy/measure Two decades of regressive policies have doubled the numbers living in poverty.