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I am describing a comparison between two situations:

  1. A government (e.g. a communist one) that takes all the property of everyone and re-divides it.

  2. A government (e.g. a welfare state) that taxes some of the property of the rich people but lets them keep most of their property.

I am looking for a general noun that describes, in the second situation, the fact that people are allowed to keep their property. It should be used in the following sentence:

The second government satisfies the partial ___________ principle, which means that each person is allowed to keep a part of his property.

I am looking for a word which emphasizes the fact that they "keep" and "remain" with (some of) their current property

Maybe "persistence" or "consistency"? Something similar to these?

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  • What if we invert the expression from "partial preservation" to "limited intervention"? That is, the govt. embarks upon an inteverntion into the citizens' property affairs, but only partial. Nov 15, 2015 at 14:16
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    partial appropriation?
    – user20792
    Nov 15, 2015 at 14:19
  • @CopperKettle this is possible, but I prefer to speak positively.. Nov 15, 2015 at 15:10
  • partial redistribution principle
    – MaxW
    Nov 15, 2015 at 17:57
  • I am looking for a word which emphasizes the fact that they "keep" and "remain" with (some of) their current property. Nov 15, 2015 at 18:02

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The second government satisfies the partial retention principle, which means that each person is allowed to keep a part of his property.

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I would guess that it might be "partial ownership principle"

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  • I am looking for a word which has a meaning similar to "remain" and "keep". Nov 15, 2015 at 17:46

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