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dis·pos·able in·come

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. disposable incomenoun

    income (after taxes) that is available to you for saving or spending

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  1. disposable incomenoun

    that portion of income which is available for spending on discretionary purchases; for individuals, it is usually calculated as total income less taxes. National disposable income, which is the disposable income of all individuals and businesses, is calculated as total national income minus taxes plus transfer payments. Dornbusch and Fischer (Macroeconomics)

Wiktionary

  1. disposable incomenoun

    The amount of a person's or group's monetary income which is available to be saved or spent (on either essential or non-essential items), after deducting all taxes and other governmental fees.

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  1. disposable income

    Disposable income is the amount of money that a person or household has available to spend or save after income taxes, social security charges, and other mandatory deductions have been paid from gross earnings. It can be used for non-essential spending, personal savings, or investments.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of disposable income in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of disposable income in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of disposable income in a Sentence

  1. Cory Booker:

    You know what you need to donate to political campaigns?Disposable income, the way we fix it this is we take Martin Luther Kingsmessage of a guaranteed minimum income, a freedom dividend of $ 1,000 a month for all Americans -- Id guarantee if we had a freedom dividend... I would not be the only candidate of color on this stage tonight.

  2. United States:

    Are we rewarding China ? Are we rewarding United States citizens because they're going to buy these goods no matter what and we're taking more disposable income out of their hands.

  3. Benjamin Alexander:

    If we look at minorities in America or in England, most of them are first - or second-generation immigrants, so they don't have as much disposable income as their White counterparts.

  4. Jeb Bush:

    You can take it out of context all you want, but high sustained growth means people work 40 hours rather than 30 hours and that by our success they have disposable income for their families to decide how they want to spend it rather than standing in line and being dependent upon government.

  5. Ian Claxton:

    The need for bulk wheat, corn and rice will increase as local GDP and disposable income increases, again from Thailand, India, the U.S.A. - if all is forgiven - and South America plus the Black Sea.


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