dissave

English

Etymology

From dis- +‎ save.

Verb

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.

   • 2018, Lars Ljungqvist and Thomas J. Sargent, Recursive macroeconomic theory, 4th edition, MIT Press, page 25:

     In chapter 21, we shall follow Cole and Kocherlakota (2001) by allowing the household to save (but not to dissave) a risk-free asset that bears fixed gross interest rate $R=\beta ^{-1}$. [emphasis in original]

   • 2019, David Romer, Advanced Macroeconomics, 5th edition, McGraw-Hill, page 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.

Antonyms

• save

Derived terms

• dissaver

 

Translations

to spend more than one earns

• Esperanto: malŝpari
• German: entsparen

Anagrams

• advises