disposable
Example Sentences
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To be sure, the amount of households’ disposable income that goes toward gasoline has fallen over the years—muting the impact of higher prices on total aggregate spending trends.
From Barron's
Energy Information Administration forecast that households will spend 2.1% of their disposable income on energy costs in the first quarter, compared with 1.2% at the end of last year, according to an early-March outlook.
From MarketWatch
“We do not make disposable clothing,” Yanai said in the company’s last annual report.
From Los Angeles Times
"If we can transform the sense of guilt ordinary consumers may feel about using disposable products into something positive, and make using recycled products the norm in society, it will become economically viable," he said.
From Barron's
For people with limited disposable income, radio offered an affordable form of entertainment, and the medium experienced its heyday in the 1930s.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
