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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. Craig Johnson:

    Real disposable income growth has remained weak and that has contributed to the growth and outperformance of off-price chains and the continued slowdown for department stores.

  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. Erik Lundh:

    For the people who saved some of that money to backstop their spending, life is probably still pretty good, but for people who live paycheck-to-paycheck, that decline in real disposable income... that's much more distressing than economists and policymakers realize.

  4. 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.

  5. Jens Weidmann on Thursday:

    The main drivers are the favourable labour market situation and substantial increases in households' real disposable income, though foreign trade is currently being hampered by frail demand from the emerging market economies, but with export markets outside the euro area expected to rebound and economic growth within the euro area gaining a little more traction, the healthy underlying state of the German economy should stand out even more clearly over the next two years.


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