How to Use disposable income in a Sentence

disposable income

noun
Definition of disposable incomenext
  • 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
  • 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
  • This is a select group—early adopters with disposable income and access to plenty of doctors.
    — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 12 Jan. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Real disposable income grew again in March, marking nine consecutive months of gains, Yaros noted.
    — Alicia Wallace, CNN, 28 Apr. 2023
  • That suggests some households that receive refunds may be squeezed for disposable income, and thus face more financial pressures — which could cause that extra money to be swept up in current needs rather than long-term goals.
    — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 21 Mar. 2023
  • With fewer dollars flowing outward last month, consumers were able to sock away more money: The rate of savings as a percentage of disposable income rose to 4.6%, an increase of 0.3 percentage points from April.
    — Alicia Wallace, CNN, 30 June 2023
  • There is a measure by which an apples-to-apples comparison can be made: personal disposable income per capita.
    — Politifact Staff Writer, Dallas News, 8 Sep. 2023
  • For many families, this causes a significant drain on their finances, with some people in the U.S. spending nearly 14% of their disposable income on diapers.
    — Madison Medeiros, Parents, 23 Oct. 2023
  • Which means doctors work in one of the few industries where demand is not necessarily determined by disposable income.
    — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2023
  • They’re not designed with working professionals in mind, but rather affluent travelers who have the luxury of free time and ample disposable income.
    — Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 24 Mar. 2023
  • New technologies made chores easier, freeing up couples’ time, and growing wages gave people more disposable income.
    — Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 19 Mar. 2024
  • At the time, Ms. Steele, a senior design manager at Atlassian, a software company, had little disposable income and no children.
    — Caitlin Kelly, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2023
  • Households appear in much better condition ahead of the holiday season as disposable income and savings both rose, while retail spending also jumped.
    — Byryan Hogg, Fortune, 31 Oct. 2023
  • According to the Ministry of the Interior, the ratio of Taiwan’s median national house price to the median household annual disposable income reached a record high last year of nearly 10 to 1, doubling over the last two decades.
    — Stephanie Yang, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Rappers wear jewelry to floss and flex, to make a flamboyant spectacle of their disposable income, but also to commemorate and honor, to endorse and advertise.
    — Daniel Levin Becker Jessica Pettway, New York Times, 8 Aug. 2023
  • But despite this reality and despite minimal disposable income, if any, there existed pockets of light and life where music and the arts thrived while a grim reality unfolded around them.
    — Gen Handley, Spin, 25 Aug. 2023

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