Degressive

Definitions: Degressive

Degressive

Adjective

1. Going down by steps.

2. Gradually decreasing in rate on sums below a certain amount.

"Degressive" is a common misspelling or typo for: depressive, digressive, regressive.

Specialty Definitions: Degressive

Domain	Definitions
Computing	Decrease by stages. Source: European Union. (references)
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Non-Fiction Usage: Degressive

Subject	Topic	Quote
Trade	Senegal	These special tariffs include the " taxe degressive de protection" and the "taxe conjoncturelle a l'importation." The taxe degressive de protection is applied to imports of finished products such as tobacco, matches, tomato paste, candies, batteries, powdered milk, candles, etc that compete with local production. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Degressive

"Degressive" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Degressive" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	2	245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Degressive

Expression using "degressive": degressive depreciation. Additional references.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Degressive

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
degressive	8
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Modern Translations: Degressive

Language		Translations for "degressive"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Bulgarian		прогресивно намаляващ. (various references)

Czech		postupnì se zmenšující. (various references)

Danish		degressiv, trinvis mindskning. (various references)

Dutch		degressief. (various references)

French		dégressif (degressiv). (various references)

German		absteigend (descending, downward). (various references)

Greek		Κατάπτωση. (various references)

Hungarian		degresszív (graduated taxation). (various references)

Italian		decrescente (decreasing). (various references)

Pig Latin		egressiveday

Portuguese		degressivo (downcast). (various references)

Romanian		care scade proporţional. (various references)

Russian		нисходящий (top-down). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		silazni (declining, descending, downward, falling). (various references)

Spanish		decreciente (decreasing, decrescent, sagging). (various references)

Swedish		degressiv. (various references)

Turkish		azalan oranlı. (various references)

Ukranian		спадний (descendant, downward), низхідний, пропорційно зменшуваний. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Degressive

Derivations
	Words beginning with "degressive": degressively. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Degressive

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-e-e-g-i-r-s-s-v"
	-2 letters: deserves, devisees, devisers, diereses, disserve, dissever, diverges, egressed.
	-3 letters: degrees, derives, deserve, desires, devisee, deviser, devises, digress, diverge, diverse, grieved, grieves, regives, reseeds, resides, revised, revises, sedgier, seeders, seedier, severed, veeries.
	-4 letters: degree, derive, desire, devise, dieses, dirges, divers, drives, edgers, edgier, egises, egress, eiders, givers, greeds, grides, grieve, reeved, reeves, regive, reived, reives, reseed, resees, reside, resids, revise, ridges, seders, sedges, seeder, seised, seiser, serges, series, served, serves, severe, severs, sieged, sieges, sieved, sieves, sirees, sivers, veered, vegies, verged, verges, versed, verses, viseed.
	-5 letters: deers, dirge, diver, dives, drees, dregs, dress, dries, drive, edger, edges, eerie, egers, eider, erses, geese, girds, giver, gives, greed, grees, gride, grids, redes, reeds, reeve, reges, reive, resee, resid, rides, ridge, rises, rived, rives, seder, sedge, seeds, seers, seise, sered, seres, serge, serve, sever, sides, siege, sieve, sired, siree, sires, siver, veers, vegie, verge, verse, viers, vires, vised, vises.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-e-e-g-i-r-s-s-v"
	+2 letters: degressively.
	+4 letters: digressiveness.
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