redistributionist

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English

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Etymology

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From redistribution +‎ -ist.

Noun

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redistributionist (plural redistributionists)

  1. 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, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC, 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.