redistributionist

[ree-dis-tri-byoo-shuh-nist]

noun

Economics.

1. a person who believes in, advocates, or supports income redistribution.

Word History and Origins

Origin of redistributionist¹

First recorded in 1975–80; redistribution + -ist

Example Sentences

One New York-born chief executive who isn’t a fan of the candidate said that if Mamdani wants to enact a redistributionist agenda, he needs to do more to retain the residents whose taxes would pay for his plans.

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Third, her message sounds redistributionist rather than pro-growth and economic freedom.

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And lest you think this is a radical redistributionist proposition, allow me to share the views of someone else who thinks so — one Rupert Murdoch.

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They are working to subordinate the free and prosperous West to a redistributionist global authority.

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Lawrence Powell, a history professor emeritus at Tulane University in New Orleans, called Mr. Edwards “the last of the buccaneer liberals who governed in the tradition of Huey Long. They were characterized by a redistributionist politics, where you could always see progress in lifting people out of poverty — but it was linked to easy political morals.”

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