disposable income

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disposable income (countable and uncountable, plural disposable incomes)

  1. (economics) The amount of a person's or group's monetary income which is available to be saved or spent (on either essential or non-essential items), after deducting all taxes and other governmental fees.
    • 1982 July 15, David Craig, “Heck with Haagen-Dasz”, in Bay Area Reporter, volume 12, number 28, page 7:
      Perhaps the day is not far off when we witness McDonald's and Burger King fighting it out on the corner of 18th and Castro for our well-publicized “disposable income.”

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