redistributionist

noun

A person who advocates redistribution of wealth from the rich to the poor.

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Meanings

nounredistributionist (plural redistributionists)

plural redistributionists

  1. A person who advocates redistribution of wealth from the rich to the poor.
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    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, constellations, shadow-legatees.

    1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 6, in The Crying of Lot 49, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published November 1976, →ISBN, page 136

Origin

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Chicago

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