disposable income
noun
: income that is left after paying taxes and for things that are essential, such as food and housing
I don't have enough disposable income to buy such luxuries.
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Instead, Americans just kept buying more, even accounting for price increases and beyond growth in their disposable income.
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Nicole Narea, Vox, 18 May 2024
In Italy, for example, the gross savings rate dropped from around 30 percent of disposable income in the eighties to around 11 percent today partly as a result of the steep reduction in the ratio of prime savers to elderly.
—Edoardo Campanella, Foreign Affairs, 20 Apr. 2016
Furthermore, the global cost-of-living crisis has reduced many consumers’ disposable income.
—Hilary Tetenbaum, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2024
Good wine is generally more expensive than beer or spirits, and millennials notably have less disposable income, less job security and more student loan debt than their parents did.
—Anya Jaremko-Greenwold, The Week Us, theweek, 9 Apr. 2024
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Nicole Narea, Vox, 18 May 2024
In Italy, for example, the gross savings rate dropped from around 30 percent of disposable income in the eighties to around 11 percent today partly as a result of the steep reduction in the ratio of prime savers to elderly.
—Edoardo Campanella, Foreign Affairs, 20 Apr. 2016
Furthermore, the global cost-of-living crisis has reduced many consumers’ disposable income.
—Hilary Tetenbaum, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2024
Good wine is generally more expensive than beer or spirits, and millennials notably have less disposable income, less job security and more student loan debt than their parents did.
—Anya Jaremko-Greenwold, The Week Us, theweek, 9 Apr. 2024
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“Disposable income.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/disposable%20income. Accessed 26 Jul. 2024.
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