socialist principle

collocation in English

meaningsofsocialistandprinciple

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socialist
adjective
uk
/ˈsəʊ.ʃəl.ɪst/us
/ˈsoʊ.ʃəl.ɪst/
supporting or relating ...
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principle
noun
uk
/ˈprɪn.sə.pəl/us
/ˈprɪn.sə.pəl/
a basic idea or rule that explains or controls how something happens ...
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(Definition ofsocialistandprinciplefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It is important to apply the finesocialistprincipleof the redistribution of wealth by taxing the highest earners at a higher rate.
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That is hardly asocialistprinciple, but it is the reality.
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It used to be asocialistprinciplethat state help should be directed at the poor, not at the better off.
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For much of its time the health service was conducted under an oldsocialistprinciple.
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It is not sensible to talk about asocialistprincipleto do it that way.
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It was a truly national health service committed to asocialistprinciple—treatment based on need and not ability to pay.
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Another thing also happened and it was the application of thesocialistprincipleof the nationalisation of inventions.
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That status gets the lion's share of the money on the goodsocialistprinciplethat the money should be given to the poorest.
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That seems to respond to an age-oldsocialistprinciple: from those according to their means to those according to their needs.
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The ethos of what we are trying to achieve—we do not mention thesocialistprincipletoo often these days, but we should—will be undermined.
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It was asocialistprinciplewhich was put forward here.
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The proposals are extremely complicated and extend thesocialistprincipleof means-testing.
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One-third of the taxation is used, in fact, for transferring income in accordance with accepted socialist principles.
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We have every confidence in its socialist principles and its ability to carry through socialist policies.
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All those changes simply apply the basic socialist principles of the national health service to modern circumstances.
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We run the risk of perpetuating many of the socialist principles to which we are opposed.
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Their socialist principles are in good health and are here for all to see.
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There has never been a system that accurately reflected basic socialist principles of efficiency.
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They could never ever be elected on their socialist principles.
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It faces modern needs boldly and flexibly and brings to the support of our socialist principles the highest techniques of management.
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