trickle down (English, verb)
expansion: trickle down (third-person singular simple present trickles down, present participle trickling down, simple past and past participle trickled down)
Senses:
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: To pass from high-ranked people to lower-ranked people
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see trickle, down.
Forms:
form: trickles down
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: trickling down
tags: participle
present
form: trickled down
tags: participle
past
form: trickled down
tags: past