filter down
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editfilter down (third-person singular simple present filters down, present participle filtering down, simple past and past participle filtered down)
- Of a liquid; to move slowly down to lower substrate levels.
- (idiomatic) (by extension) Of information, or resources; to move slowly down to lower levels of an organisation, or population.
- They might say that the economy is improving, but it is taking a long time for any money to filter down to the poorer classes.