Antiacademy English Dictionary

DISSAVE

martes, 16 de julio de 2013

DISSAVE

Dissave
Verb
Etymology: analysable into dis- (prefix with the connotation of undoing or reversing the action or effect of the verb save) and save. Save is derived from Latin salvus.
Intransitively:
Definition: to become a dissaver; to spend more money than one gets as income, by drawing one’s savings.
It may be approximately translated by gastar más dinero del que uno gana, disminuyendo los ahorros, in Spanish; dépenser plus d’argent qu’on n’en gagne, jusqu’à la désépargne, in French; spendere i risparmi, in Italian.

Transitively:
Definition: to spend (money) by dissaving

Since money dissaved and spent is consumption, withdrawals from savings and borrowings are included in the tax base.
Liam Murphy – Thomas Nagel (The Myth of Ownership)

If they tried to dissave in order to spend more than their incomes, the initial effect would be to raise income towards […]
Alex McLeod (The Practice of Economics)

Other English words derived from Latin dissave: dissaver (one who dissaves), dissaving

Other English words derived from Latin salvus: save (noun, verb, conj.), save-all, saved, savable, saveable, unsaved, unsaveable, unsaving, safe (noun, adj.), safed, safe-conduct, safe-guard (noun, verb), safeguarding, safeguarder, safeguardance, safe-hold, safekeep, safe-keeping, safely, safener, safeness, safety (noun, verb), safety-pin (noun, verb), unsafe, unsafely, unsafeness, unsafety, sage (plant), salve (greeting), salve (verb), salved, salving, salvo, salutation, salutational, salutationless, salutatorian, salutatory, salutatorily, salute (noun, verb), saluted, saluter, salutiferous, salutiferously, saluting, unsaluted, unsaluting, unsalvable, unsalvability, unsalvableness, unsalvatory, unsalved, unsalubrious, unsalubrity, unsalutary, salvage (noun, verb), salvaged,  salvaging, salvageable, salvable, salvableness, salubrious, salubriously, salubriousness, salubrify, salubrity, salver, dissever, dissaving, life-saving, life-save, life-saver