Usually means: Wealth flows from rich to poor.
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We found 20 dictionaries that define the word trickle down:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. trickle down: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. trickle-down: Merriam-Webster
  3. trickle-down, trickle down: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. trickle-down: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. trickle-down, trickle-down: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Trickle-Down, Trickle-down, trickle-down: Wordnik
  7. trickle-down: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. trickle-down, trickle down: Wiktionary
  9. trickle-down: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. trickle-down, trickle down: Dictionary.com
  11. Trickle down: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. trickle-down: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Trickle down: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  3. Trickle down: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. trickle-down: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. trickle down: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. trickle down: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (trickle down)

verb:  (economics) To pass from high-ranked people to lower-ranked people
verb:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see trickle, down.

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