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Use "trickledown" in a sentence
"This sharing out is ostensibly carried out by a kindly invisible hand, identified long ago by the Scottish economist Adam Smith, and in recent decades referred to as "trickledown"."
"Instead, it results in higher profits with the hope that those profiting will hire more domestic help and more gardeners, and produce a few jobs that way, which is known as trickledown economics."
"For almost a decade, the American Right conducted a massive experiment in "trickledown" economics."