dis-saving
"Younger households were significantly dis-saving—aggressively borrowing—prior to the recession, but they are now saving at a healthy rate," said Mark Zandi, economist at Moody's Analytics.
The term "dis-saving," in the sense of spending more than one earns, dates back at least to the 1930s, according to the Oxford English Dictionary. Some unusual words for "bankrupt" (the possible end state of aggressive dis-saving) include the adjectives "decoct" (from a Latin word meaning "to run through one's estate") and "bung" (in Australian slang use, from an Aboriginal word for "dead")
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