Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To apply a means test to or require a means test for (a governmental program, for example).
- intransitive verb To subject to a means test.
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- verb To subject a person to a
means test , or to require a means test in order to receive abenefit
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Examples
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Westminster council is proposing to means-test social housing tenants.
Westminster council to draft 'civic contracts' for benefit recipients 2011
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Plans to means-test employment and support allowance ESA payments for disabled people after only a year were rejected by peers.
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There are widespread reports that the Obama Administration had agreed to support an increase in Medicare's eligibility age, to means-test certain Medicare programs, to cut Medicaid benefits and to restructure the payments of Social Security benefits as part of a grand bargain with Republicans, if there was also a plan to increase revenue.
Natalie Pace: FAQs on the Standard & Poor's Downgrade of the U.S. Credit Rating Natalie Pace 2011
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Tyler Cowen wants to means-test Medicare, get rid of farm subsidies and other corporate welfare, legalize more high-skilled immigrants, join Greg Mankiw's Pigou Club (meaning a tax on the use of evil fossil fuels) and get rid of the corporate income tax, and implement full-scale voucher experiments.
Fantasy Agendas, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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But then I realized that the people making those arguments wanted to do things like means-test Medicare, or increase cost-sharing across the system, and generally reduce costs in this or that way, which would cut innovation in exactly the same way that single-payer would hypothetically cut innovation: by reducing profits.
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There are widespread reports that the Obama Administration had agreed to support an increase in Medicare's eligibility age, to means-test certain Medicare programs, to cut Medicaid benefits and to restructure the payments of Social Security benefits as part of a grand bargain with Republicans, if there was also a plan to increase revenue.
Natalie Pace: FAQs on the Standard & Poor's Downgrade of the U.S. Credit Rating Natalie Pace 2011
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There are widespread reports that the Obama Administration had agreed to support an increase in Medicare's eligibility age, to means-test certain Medicare programs, to cut Medicaid benefits and to restructure the payments of Social Security benefits as part of a grand bargain with Republicans, if there was also a plan to increase revenue.
Natalie Pace: FAQs on the Standard & Poor's Downgrade of the U.S. Credit Rating Natalie Pace 2011
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There are widespread reports that the Obama Administration had agreed to support an increase in Medicare's eligibility age, to means-test certain Medicare programs, to cut Medicaid benefits and to restructure the payments of Social Security benefits as part of a grand bargain with Republicans, if there was also a plan to increase revenue.
Natalie Pace: FAQs on the Standard & Poor's Downgrade of the U.S. Credit Rating Natalie Pace 2011
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There are widespread reports that the Obama Administration had agreed to support an increase in Medicare's eligibility age, to means-test certain Medicare programs, to cut Medicaid benefits and to restructure the payments of Social Security benefits as part of a grand bargain with Republicans, if there was also a plan to increase revenue.
Natalie Pace: FAQs on the Standard & Poor's Downgrade of the U.S. Credit Rating Natalie Pace 2011
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We should also means-test so that wealthier retirees get less.
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