累るい減げん

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun which may take the genitive case particle 'no'

regressive; successive diminution

Technical term used in statistics, taxation, or formal analysis to describe a pattern where something decreases step by step or proportionally. Often appears as 累減的な (regressive) or 累減する (to diminish successively).

• この税ぜい制せいは累るい減げん的てきな構こう造ぞうを持もっている。

  This tax system has a regressive structure.

• 人じん口こうが累るい減げんしている地ち域いきでは、公こう共きょうサービスの維い持じが難むずかしくなる。

  In areas where the population is declining successively, maintaining public services becomes difficult.