redistributionist
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From redistribution + -ist.
Noun
[edit]redistributionist (plural redistributionists)
- A person who advocates redistribution of wealth from the rich to the poor.
- 1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 6, in The Crying of Lot 49, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published November 1976, →ISBN, page 136:
- 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.