How to Use disposable income in a Sentence

disposable income

noun
Definition of disposable incomenext
  • According to the firm, shares of a few major discount retailers should outperform if middle-income consumers see higher levels of disposable income.
    — Pia Singh, CNBC, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Savings is the difference between the estimate of disposable income and the estimate of consumer expenditures.
    — Bill Conerly, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024
  • How about using some of that disposable income to do things with those children who moved across country with you.
    — Haben Kelati, Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2024
  • During the same period, real disposable income in the U.S. grew at twice the rate of Europe’s.
    — Jon Helgi Egilsson, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2024
  • Less disposable income means that consumers must cut back on spending and save more.
    — Jeff Goertzen, Orange County Register, 8 July 2024
  • Must be nice to have that level of truly disposable income.
    — Tony Maglio, IndieWire, 2 Aug. 2024
  • This can be difficult to hear and heed when there is much disposable income, a lot of buzz, or many people courting you.
    — Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Yet the biggest benefits (in every sense of the word) are too often limited to those with the most means and disposable income.
    — Chadner Navarro, Travel + Leisure, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Under this plan, the payment will be 10% of disposable income for those who qualify.
    — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 24 Aug. 2023
  • More disposable income means more money to pay for passage.
    — Michael A. Clemens, Foreign Affairs, 7 June 2021
  • This is a select group—early adopters with disposable income and access to plenty of doctors.
    — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Young people suddenly had free time and disposable income in the post-war period, and catchy hits by The Beach Boys channeled the carefree attitude of the times.
    — Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 20 June 2024
  • With that in mind, there’s the knowledge that a larger proportion of disposable income is spent on experiences and, of course, top of that list is travel.
    — Angelina Villa-Clarke, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
  • There then was a depletion of consumers’ disposable income over the last few years due to the country’s tough economic outlook.
    — Tianwei Zhang, WWD, 2 July 2024
  • Still, amid the sacrifices many are making to ensure there’s a social safety net in the country, there are those with disposable income who can invest.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 5 Apr. 2024
  • As the cost of credit card debt and mortgages fall, consumers’ disposable income increases.
    — Indy Guha, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
  • The share of disposable income put away as savings stood at 3.8% in the three-month period ending in September, down from 5.2% in the previous quarter.
    — Max Zahn, ABC News, 26 Oct. 2023
  • American women, then newly equipped with jobs and disposable income en masse, became part of the consumer class.
    — Zara Khan, CNN, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Now the primary users are from Gen Z, a younger — and smaller — demographic with less disposable income.
    — J. Edward Moreno, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2024
  • But much of the gains are from investments that climbed alongside stock markets and largely don’t translate into disposable income.
    — Brian Cheung, NBC News, 18 Feb. 2024
  • The bulk of this higher disposable income will be reinjected into the economy and help lift Japan out of three decades of stagnation, Iizuka added.
    — Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 11 Sep. 2024
  • Hostels exist for a reason, to open up the possibilities of travel to young adults with little to no disposable income.
    — Dave Schilling, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2024
  • The economist pointed out that household debt service payments as a percentage of disposable income were just 9.6% in the first quarter.
    — Bywill Daniel, Fortune, 21 June 2023
  • There is no reason why some of our disposable income shouldn’t go into startup and scaleup companies.
    — Trevor Clawson, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2024
  • Less disposable income means young people may be more inclined to stay at home or explore nearby locations.
    — Kathleen Benoza, CNN, 19 Feb. 2023
  • Sales taxes paid were calculated based on the disposable income being spent on taxable goods.
    — Olivia Evans, The Courier-Journal, 5 Sep. 2024
  • Less disposable income and the Federal Reserve’s steep interest-rate hikes to curb inflation dampened consumer demand and drove down new home sales in 2022 to the lowest in four years.
    — Anu Raghunathan, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
  • If Meta tracks the browsing habits of every adult user, except those who cough up €10 or more a month, then aspects of online privacy are out of reach for people without disposable income.
    — WIRED, 9 Nov. 2023
  • There’s the hysteria over players’ use of cocaine, a drug popular among many people with disposable income in the ’70s and ’80s, which somehow terrified and enraged the league and the media when rich Black guys were indulging.
    — Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Specifically, the amount would be lowered from 10% of your disposable income to 5%, and less income would be classified as disposable.
    — Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2023

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