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unearned increment
noun
- the increase in the value of property, especially land, due to natural causes, as growth of population, rather than to any labor or expenditure by the owner.
unearned increment
noun
- a rise in the market value of landed property resulting from general economic factors
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Word History and Origins
Origin of unearned increment1
First recorded in 1870–75
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Example Sentences
If any one else gets money in this way they call it an unearned increment.
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This unearned increment of reputation, compounded annually, is all that keeps some ancient authors alive nowadays.
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Apart from the matter of unearned increment, however, he always followed his hunches; but this one he did not like at all.
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The "unearned increment" should accrue to the whole community and not to a few landowners.
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We had both been working very hard, and it was your unearned increment we spent, and as you're only a loafer it didn't matter.'
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