dissave

English

Etymology

dis- + save

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dissave (third-person singular simple present dissaves, present participle dissaving, simple past and past participle dissaved)

  1. To spend more than one earns.
    • 1997, Jürgen Eichberger; Ian R. Harper, Financial Economics, Oxford University Press, page 94:
      The ith consumer's choice set is depicted in Figure 3.3 as a single point. It is not possible for the consumer to exploit gains from trade between dates (by saving/dissaving) within the constraints imposed by the spot market economy.
    • 2019, David Romer, Advanced Macroeconomics (5th ed.), McGraw-Hill, p. 665
      In [the Diamond overlapping-generations model], each individual saves early in life and dissaves later in life. As a result, at any time some individuals have saved and not yet dissaved.

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