Contextualizebeta

dissave

verb

Etymology

From dis- + save.

  1. derived from salvo — “to save”
  2. derived from sauver
  3. inherited from saven
  4. prefixed as dissave — “dis + save”

Definitions

  1. To spend more than one earns.

    • 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.
    • 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#61;#92;beta#123;-1#125;. [emphasis in original]
    • 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for dissave. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA