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redistributionist

redistributionist noun: a person who advocates redistribution of wealth from the rich to the poor.

Noun

redistributionist (plural redistributionists)

  1. A person who advocates redistribution of wealth from the rich to the poor.
    • He'd be on her ass in a microsecond, revoke her letters testamentary, they'd call her names, proclaim her through all Orange County as a redistributionist and pinko, slip the old man from Warpe, Wistfull, Kubitschek and McMingus in as administrator de bonis non and so much baby for code...1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 6, in The Crying of Lot 49, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published November 1976, →ISBN, page 136

Forms of redistributionist

pluralredistributionists

Origin of redistributionist

From redistribution + -ist.

Questions about redistributionist

What does redistributionist mean?
Redistributionist means a person who advocates redistribution of wealth from the rich to the poor.
What part of speech is redistributionist?
Redistributionist is a noun.
What is the plural of redistributionist?
The plural of redistributionist is redistributionists.

Words near redistributionist in the dictionary

  1. redistributing
  2. redistribution
  3. redistribution of wealth
  4. redistributional
  5. redistributionism
  6. redistributionist
  7. redistributionists
  8. redistributions
  9. redistributions of wealth
  10. redistributive
  11. redistributor

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