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dissave en · VERB

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ ▲ Proto-Indo-European *trísinflu. Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is- Proto-Italic *dis- Latin dis- Old French des-bor. ▲ Latin dis-bor. Middle English dis- English dis- Proto-Indo-European *solh₂-der. Proto-Italic *salawos Latin salvus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin salvō Latin salvāre Old French sauverbor. Middle English saven English save English dissave From dis- + save.

Meanings

1. To spend more than one earns.
   • 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] 2018, Lars Ljungqvist and Thomas J. Sargent, Recursive macroeconomic theory, 4th edition, MIT Press, page 25:
   • 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. 1997, Jürgen Eichberger, Ian R. Harper, Financial Economics, Oxford University Press, page 94:
   • 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. 2019, David Romer, Advanced Macroeconomics, 5th edition, McGraw-Hill, page 665:

Forms

Antonyms

save

Deriveds

dissaver

Translations (2)

eo malŝpari (to spend more than one earns) · de entsparen (to spend more than one earns)