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).
この税制は累減的な構造を持っている。
This tax system has a regressive structure.
人口が累減している地域では、公共サービスの維持が難しくなる。
In areas where the population is declining successively, maintaining public services becomes difficult.