dissavev.
intransitive to spend more than one's income, by drawing on savings or realizing capital.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > spend or incur expense [verb (intransitive)] > spend or have spent beyond one's means
overspend1930
dissave1936
1936 J. M. Keynes Gen. Theory Employment vii. 82 No one can acquire an asset..unless..someone else parts with an asset of that value..someone else must be dis-saving an equal sum.
1954 W. T. Newlyn & D. C. Rowan Money & Banking ix. 191 African holders of temporarily idle balances would tend to dissave in an effort to maintain their standards of consumption.
Derivatives
disˈsaver n. one who dissaves.
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1950 Daily Tel. 6 Jan. A Federal Reserve report refers to people who spend more than they earn as ‘dissavers’.
disˈsaving n.
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1946 Economist 13 Apr. 602/2 Nothing has been allowed for dis-saving, which must loom ever larger as increasing supplies of goods create opportunities for spending.
1952 Times 1 Dec. 7/2 The dissaving which estate duties do for them when they die.
1971 Daily Tel. 23 July 17 In addition to..the encouragement to buy on credit there is a possibility of a substantial dis-saving.
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