I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
progressive tax
steady/progressive (= gradual but continuous )
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There has been a steady decline in club membership.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
decline
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The disease does not go away if one ignores it: progressive decline is inexorable.
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The result is a progressive decline in physical abilities.
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The progressive decline in the course of addictive disease follows similar patterns in differing individual sufferers.
deterioration
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The chronic phase shows progressive deterioration in emotional stability so that relationships become progressively damaged.
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Recurrent anxiety and depression with progressive deterioration .
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The third possibility of no solution, but a progressive deterioration in the territories remained the most dangerous.
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The effect on Nizan of this progressive deterioration of his father's situation can not be overestimated.
development
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My argument is that state capitalism of the kind outlined above would be a highly progressive development .
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Almost continuous revolution for twenty-seven years following independence had disrupted industry, commerce, and all progressive development .
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He believed in a kind of progressive development of forms, but like Forbes stopped short of an actual evolutionary theory.
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There is therefore inevitably a friction between the rigid pacta tertiis rule and the progressive development of normative standards.
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The critical question was: Why has life undergone this progressive development in the course of time?
disease
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But alcoholism, like drug addiction, is a progressive disease that gets worse without treatment.
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It is important to offer some ray of hope to the victims of this chronic and progressive disease .
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As a progressive disease , cure is not possible, only arrest of the disease.
education
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Britain, in the mid-1970s, seemed to me like the promised land of progressive education .
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Teachers actively engage in working for progressive education , defending the curriculum they developed and finding ways to expand it.
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I got a job under a free-thinking Head in one of the most progressive education authorities.
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Winnetka is blessed with a long history of progressive education .
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Such a view begins to turn on its head the old assumption that individualism is the sinequanon of progressive education .
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Everything about the schools was viewed through the lens of progressive education .
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So much for a progressive education .
idea
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Inevitably, in time, some of the progressive ideas being put forward seeped into public consciousness.
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Questions about their politics elicited answers which were, generally, conservative and not in favour of progressive ideas .
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There was, however, also an ethical strain to the progressive ideas of this period.
increase
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Their rise was not, however, one of simple and progressive increase in variety.
movement
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By making such groups irrelevant, the State can write off the progressive movements of the last 20 years.
reduction
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A progressive reduction in tissue perfusion may accompany recurrence of Crohn's disease while at a subclinical stage.
tax
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Income tax is a progressive tax because higher earners pay a higher proportion of their income in this tax than lower earners.
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By definition, a tax whose average tax rate rises as income Increases is called progressive tax.
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A progressive tax structure is one in which the average tax rate rises with an individual's income level.
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Why? 6 Precisely what is meant by a progressive tax ?
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A second reform is therefore essential - to turn the national insurance tax from a proportional into a progressive tax.
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Like any progressive tax , liability increases where the pocket is deeper.
taxation
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Many of these changes have been directly related to progressive taxation , transfer payments and high levels of employment.
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Now Smith had rather little to say about whether this impartial spectator favored progressive taxation .
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The banding system is a move towards progressive taxation , which I welcome.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a progressive brain disorder
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Lotus had always prided itself on its progressive employee policies.
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Patients are taught progressive muscle relaxation techniques.
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She went to a progressive private school where the pupils could choose which lessons to attend.
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the progressive wing of the Republican Party
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the government's progressive policies for dealing with inner city problems
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Accountability and responsibility are crucial characteristics of a vital, progressive , democratic society.
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Herein lies the progressive dilemma of the 21st century.
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I began to consistently ally myself, in my heart and mind, with the progressive side of political movements.
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I believe that progressive legislation like universal health care is essential and would be good for individuals and good for the country.
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One also has to question just how progressive Labour really is.
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Patients with osteoarthritis have a progressive destruction of joint tissue which can be exactly quantified.
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Taxation can be redistributive without being progressive .
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The Conservatives, led by James Pliny Whitney, were more progressive .
II. noun
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Being in sympathy with the underdog he would be classed as a radical progressive .
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But progressives may not be bought so easily; for there are a hundred reasons to deny Labour support.
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Modern progressives committed to diversity often fail to acknowledge this.
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One of those who left is anthropologist Mikel Azurmendi, a militant progressive and a leading figure in the fight against Franco.
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The efficient and the progressive were rewarded with survival and growth.
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What progressive couldn't want that?