trickle
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- n flowing in drops; the formation and falling of drops of liquid
- v run or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady stream
water trickled onto the lawn from the broken hose
- The trickle is titillating and politically noxious.
- It's kind of hard to sell 'trickle-down,' so the supply-side formula was the only way to get a tax policy that was really 'trickle-down.
- So far, the government has focused on trickle-down solutions: dealing with complicated assets like mortgage-based securities in the hopes of stabilizing the values of more concrete .