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unearned increment

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unearned increment
n.
The increase in property value resulting from factors independent of the owner, such as a general rise in demand for land.
unearned increment
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(Economics, Accounting & Finance / Banking & Finance) a rise in the market value of landed property resulting from general economic factors
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Noun1.unearned increment - an unearned rise in the market value of property resulting from general market factors
financial gain - the amount of monetary gain
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Now, after making the usual unjust allowance for interest on thirty pounds for twelve years or so that had elapsed, the sale of the picture would have brought me in a profit of over seven hundred and fifty pounds, an unearned increment to which I had no righteous claim.
An Unsocial Socialist by Shaw, George Bernard View in context
 
 
 
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