redistributionist

English edit

Etymology edit

redistribution +‎ -ist

Noun edit

redistributionist (plural redistributionists)

  1. A person who advocates redistribution of wealth from the rich to the poor.
    • 1966, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 6, in The Crying of Lot 49, New York: Bantam Books, published 1976, →ISBN, page 136:
      He'd be on her ass in a microsecond, revoke her letters testamentary, they'd call her names, proclaim her through all Orange County as a redistributionist and pinko, slip the old man from Warpe, Wistfull, Kubitschek and McMingus in as administrator de bonis non and so much baby for code, constellations, shadow-legatees.